Vocal honors went to Lara Lynn McGill…

- Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Shining Brow with Pittsburgh Festival Opera)

Soprano Lara Lynn McGill has been described as “a voice of size, clarity and wide coloristic range… a three-dimensional figure who combined vulnerability with strength and tugged at the heartstrings in her every breath and movement.”  (Pittsburgh Post Gazette) Upcoming engagements include Ms. McGill’s soloist debut at Carnegie Hall in Garcia’s Requiem Mass as well as Dreamweaver by Gjeilo. She will also perform Zerlina in Don Giovanni with 9th Avenue Opera in NYC. She has appeared with St. Petersburg Opera in FL as Fiordiligi, Pamina, and Antonia. Other favorite roles: Romilda in Xerxes and Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Donna Anna, Mamah Cheney in Shining Brow, The Foreign Women in Menotti’s The Consul with Opera New Jersey, Susannah in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Sandrina, Lauretta, Adina, and her Pittsburgh Opera debut as Barbarina. Ms. McGill’s concert soloist performances range from Baroque to Vaughan Williams.  Highlights include: Vivaldi’s and Handel’s Gloria, Messiah excerpts, Brahms’, Mozart’s, and Rutter’s Requiem, and In Terra Pax by Finzi. Lara graduated with her master’s from Eastman School of Music and her bachelor’s from the University of Miami.  Her recital and competition appearances include the eastern United States, California, Idaho, Italy, Austria, and South Africa.