PERFORMERS

Erin Shea Hogan (Amy), soprano, is a Master of Voice student under the tutelage of Dr. Lynn Eustis. Previously at BU, Erin was a cover for Selena and in the chorus of Jake Heggie’s If I Were You. She has performed excerpts of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice as Eurydice, Yolanda in El Caminante by Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, and Emily in Our Town by Ned Rorem. In addition to her participation in BU Opera, Erin is a chorister at the Church of the Advent and a Compassion in Action Fellow supported by the Namchak Foundation, a lineage of Tibetan Buddhism based in Montana.

Madeleine Lew (Amy), soprano, is a Los Angeles native completing her first year as a member of Boston University’s Opera Institute in the studio of Penelope Bitzas. This season, she performed the title role of Beatriz in La Hija de Rappaccini, and will be singing the role of Morgana in BU’s production of Alcina. Previously, Madeleine has sung the role of the Bear in Pulkiss’s world premiere of All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story, Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice, and Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande among others. She is a 2023 Boston District Winner of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition and has won awards from James Toland Vocal Arts and East Bay Opera League.

Carli Mazich-Addice (Cecelia March) is a second-year mezzosoprano from the Jersey shore. She is in the studio of Penelope Bitzas. Carli appeared in BU Opera Institute’s production of If I Were You in the role of Rachel. She looks forward to singing the role of Susan Veeder in Jodi Goble’s Whaling Women in March at BU.

Rebecca Nehmeh (Quartet, Meg cover), mezzo-soprano, is a first year MM student at Boston University, under the instruction of James Demler and is the cover of Meg in this year’s production of Little Women by Mark Adamo. Rebecca was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brooklyn Music School’s Summer Vocal Arts for three summers following her undergraduate studies as a soprano, earning the roles of Eglé from Gluck’s Écho et Narcisse and Bastienne from Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne. Following her time at LaGuardia Arts HS, she received her BM from Rutgers University, under the instruction of Finnish soprano, Taina Kataja and continued her studies with Professors Amy Burton and Cyndia Sieden post-grad.

Lucia Palladino (Quartet, Beth cover) is a soprano from South Windsor, Connecticut. She is a second-year Master of Music student at Boston University studying with James Demler. Lucia earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Belmont University in 2021, where she performed the roles of Romilda in Handel’s Serse, Beth in Copland’s The Tender Land, and numerous partial roles. She also completed a minor in Italian and is a member of the international foreign language honor society Phi Sigma Iota and national college honor society Alpha Chi.

Yomi Park (Quartet), a South Korean soprano, is a first-year MM student at Boston University, studying with Matthew DiBattista. Yomi attended Hanyang University in Korea, earning a Bachelor of Music. In Korea, she has performed the role of Mimì