PavarOpera at the Park!

Soprano Kristal Daniels is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music; Baltimore, MA. Kristal has sung several roles with the international music festival La Musica Lirica; Novafeltria, IT. Roles: Mimi, La Boheme; Madame Lidoine, Dialogues of the Carmelites; Violetta, La Traviata; and title role, Sour Angelica. She also sung with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre for their Opera Gala at Carnegie Hall as a soloist. Hailing from New Jersey, she studies under Patricia Green and works towards completing her MMus from the University of Western Ontario. In her life outside school, she lives and regularly performs at Oakcrossing Retirement Living.

Baritone, Matthew Maisano most recently appeared with Pittsburgh Festival Opera this past summer in their experimental digital season, Opera Without Walls. He will return to PFO next Summer to sing Kinesias in Markl Adamo's Lysistrata. Other major credits include: The Title Role in Eugene Onegin (Russian Opera Workshop), Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro (Wilmington Concert Opera and Cleveland Institute of Music Opera Theater), Pandolfe in Cendrillon (Miami Music Festival), Senex in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Natchez Festival of Music), Baptista in Kiss Me, Kate! (Pittsburgh Festival Opera), Bob in The Old Maid and the Thief (Opera Tutti), Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and Albert in Werther (Temple University Opera Theater). Matthew frequently appears as a soloist and chorister throughout the greater Philadelphia region with groups such as Opera Philadelphia, Rose Tree Pops Orchestra, Opera on tap: Philadelphia, Vox Ama Deus, Wilmington Concert Opera, and Opera Tutti of West Chester.  Matthew received his Bachelors from Temple University's Boyer College of Music & Dance and his Masters from The Cleveland Institute of Music.

https://www.matthewmaisano.com/

     Philadelphia Soprano Audra Casebier earned her MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College. Audra premiered the role of Daphne Woods in Bounce: The Basketball Operawith Ardea Arts. In 2014, Audra “delivered a powerhouse performance as the deeply troubled Anna Maurrant” (Times Argus)in Kurt Weill’s Street Sceneat Opera North. Other roles performed include Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi)(2015) and the title role of Iolanta at Westminster. As well as Frasquita (Carmen), Clorinda (La Cenerentola) with Opera on the James, and Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) with New York Opera Forum. Along with being a 2014 Young Artist with Opera North, Audra has also participated in the CoOPERAtive Program as a Fellow in 2013 and a Young Artist in 2011. She is the 2013 winner of the graduate-level Westminster Voice Awards, as well as a semi-finalist in the 2013 Classical Singer National Competition. Audra received her BM in Vocal Performance from Kent State University. 

http://www.audracasebier.com/