35 Main Stage Seasons with Memorable Debuts
1st Season / 1989-1990
La Traviata
Soprano Shirley Jaron
Tosca
Baritone Vernon Hartman
2nd Season / 1990-1991
Don Pasquale
Bass Baritone Edward Bogusz
La Boheme
Baritone Mark Gargiulo
3rd Season / 1991-1992
Rigoletto
Soprano Denise Coffey-Stuart
Madama Butterfly
Tenor Ronald Naldi
4th Season / 1992-1993
Il Trovatore
Soprano Francesca Acurso
Tenor Alan Glassman
Die Fledermaus
Soprano Virginia Piquette
5th Season / 1993-1994
Faust
Baritone Perry Ward
The Barber of Seville
Mezzo Gwendolyn Lentz
6th Season / 1994-1995
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
Soprano Susan Owen
Baritone Edward Huls
Tosca
Soprano Stephanie Friede
Tenor Antonio Nagore
Baritone Mark Delavan
7th Season / 1995-1996
La Traviata
Soprano Paula Delligatti
Lucia di Lammermoor
Soprano Leanne McGiffin
Baritone David Arnold
8th Season / 1996-1997
Carmen
Mezzo Gwendolyn Jones
Madama Butterfly
Baritone Bojan Knezevic
9th Season / 1997-1998
La Boheme
Soprano Yunah Lee
Le nozze di Figaro
Soprano Allison Charney
Baritone Matthew Lau
10th Season / 1998-1999
Die Fledermaus
Soprano Suzan Hanson
Tenor Barton Green
Rigoletto
Baritone Patrick Wróblewski
11th Season / 1999-2000
L'elisir d'Amore
Soprano Lorraine Ernest
Il Tabarro / Gianni Schicchi
Soprano Nova Thomas
Baritone Carlos Serrano
12th Season / 2000-2001
Tosca
Baritone Daniel Sutin
La Traviata
Soprano Helen Todd
Tenor Benjamin Warschawski
13th Season / 2001-2002
Il Trovatore
Contralto Ellen Rabiner
Madama Butterfly
Mezzo Sooyun Chung
Tenor John Easterlin
14th Season / 2002-2003
Lucia di Lammermoor
*Debut Title Role* Soprano Lorraine Ernest
La Boheme
Soprano Valerie Bernhardt
Baritone Maksim Ivanov
15th Season / 2003-2004
Carmen
Mezzo Lori-Kaye Miller
Soprano Adina Aaron
The Barber of Seville
Baritone Constantinos Yiannoudes
16th Season / 2004-2005
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
Soprano Tamara Haskin
Soprano Coral Owdom
Don Giovanni
Soprano Cheryl Evans
17th Season / 2005-2006
Aida
Soprano Othalie Graham
Mezzo Grace Echauri
Susannah
Baritone Daniel Okulitch
18th Season / 2006-2007
Turandot
Soprano Olga Chernisheva
Rigoletto
Tenor Mark Schowalter
Mezzo Ryu-Kyung Kim
19th Season / 2007-2008
La Traviata
Baritone Kenneth Overton
West Side Story
Soprano Yolibet Varela
Tenor Cameron Smith
20th Season / 2008-2009
Messiah
Soprano Sungji Kim
Madama Butterfly
Soprano Teresa Eickel
Tenor Mauricio O'Reilly
Baritone Kevin Grace
21st Season / 2009-2010
The Pirates of Penzance
Baritone William Andrew Stuckey
Tenor David Gagnon
Soprano Samantha Grenell-Zaidman
Mezzo Renee Bergeron
22nd Season / 2010-2011
La Serva Mistress / The Music Master
Soprano Jendi Tarde
Baritone Grant Mech
Tenor Brett Colby
Tosca
Tenor Daniel Snyder
23rd Season / 2011-2012
Hansel and Gretel
Mezzo Jessica Renfro
Soprano Francesca Mondanaro
The Magic Flute
Soprano Kristin K. Vogel
Tenor James Price
Baritone Tom McNichols
24th Season / 2012-2013
Don Pasquale
*Opera Debut* Soprano Sungji Kim
Faust
Baritone Frank Basile
25th Season / 2013-2014
Verdi's 200th Birthday Concert
Mezzo Soprano Galina Ivannikova
La Traviata
Baritone Michael Corvino
26th Season / 2014-2015
Love's Music From the Opera Stage
Tenor Won Whi Choi
Baritone Gustavo Ahualli
La Boheme
Soprano Erica Strauss
Baritone Eric Dubin
Bass Martin Hargrove
27th Season / 2015-2016
Die Fledermaus
Countertenor Ray Chenez
Tenor Philippe Castagner
Baritone Stefanos Koroneos
Carmen
Mezzo Julia Mintzer
Tenor Patrick Miller
Soprano Lyssandra Stephenson
Soprano Brynn Terry
Mezzo Maja Lisa FritzHuspen
28th Season/2016-2017
The Barber of Seville
Baritone Jose Adan Perez
Tenor Thor Arbjornsson
Baritone Stefanos Koroneos
Bass Paul An
Lucia di Lammermoor
Soprano Dana Pundt
Tenor Todd Wilander
29th Season / 2017-2018
Cavalleria Rusticana
Soprano Eudora Brown
Tenor Peter Scott Drackley
I Pagliacci
Tenor Errin Duane Brooks
Soprano Natalie Polito
Baritone Gustavo Feulien
30th Season / 2018-2019
Bernstein Centennial
Mezzo-Soprano Amy Maude Helfer
Baritone William Lee Bryan
Aida
Soprano Marsha Thompson
Contralto Alison Bolshoi
31st Season / 2019-2020
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Young Soprano Janki Namboodiripad
Soprano Amber Nicole Johnson
Tenor Mathew Tartza
Baritone Kevin Patrick
32nd Season / 2020-2021
The Next Generation of Tenors
Tenor Jeremy Brauner
Tenor Errin Duane Brooks
Tenor John Easterlin
33rd Season / 2021-2022
Rigoletto
Baritone Robert Balonek
Soprano Susanne Burgess
Tenor Jeremy Brauner
Mezzo-Soprano Devony Smith
Bass Jeremy Galyon
34th Season / 2022-2023
Hansel and Gretel
Soprano Kerri Lynn Slominski
Mezzo-Soprano Kaitlyn Tierney
Soprano Rebecca Sacks
Soprano Jacqueline Quirk
Madama Butterfly
Soprano Ashley Galvani Bell
Mezzo-Soprano Ashley Kay Armstrong
35th Season / 2023-2024
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Soprano Alyce Daubenspeck
Young Soprano Sofia Stanev Potts
Young Soprano Courtney Neiman
Baritone Dante Doganiero
Carmen
Tenor Gregory Turay
Baritone Jason Duika
Soprano Rachael Long