With his mellifluous "honey-voice," tenor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes has emerged as an exciting young presence in the world of opera. This season, he joins the Oratorio Society of New York as soloist in the world premiere of Moravec’s All Shall Rise and in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, and makes an exciting debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago reprising his role of Police Buddy 2 and covering The Son in Tesori’s Blue. He also makes a return to Washington National Opera as Mingo in Porgy & Bess, makes his Baltimore Symphony debut as the Messenger in Aida, joins InSeries for a workshop of Damien Geter and Jarrod Lee’s Delta King Blues, and sings a concert with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra.

Rhodes recently sang Timothy Laughlin in the West Coast premiere of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers with Opera Parallèle. Other roles include Pong in Puccini’s Turandot (Washington National Opera and Houston Grand Opera), role debuts as The Hippo in The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, A Priest in Songbird (Washington National Opera), Police Buddy 2 (Washington National Opera), The Son in Blue (New Orleans Opera), and Frank in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson (Washington National Opera and Glimmerglass Festival.) With Glimmerglass, he sang Cacambo, covered the title role in Candide, sang Man in Armor and Priest #1 in The Magic Flute and Cherubiel in the world premiere of Holy Ground.

After receiving both her Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance from Rice University, soprano Georgia Belmont is thrilled to be making her FLO  debut, singing Countess Ceprano and covering Gilda in Rigoletto, as well as Léontine in The Anonymous Lover. She sang the role of Edith in Kentucky Opera’s 2024 production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance and made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut as the soprano soloist in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Wing on Wing. Belmont joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s 2024 festival season as a Gerdine Young Artist. She made her North American theatrical debut in Pasadena Playhouse’s 2023 production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music as Mrs. Nordstrom. 

American mezzo-soprano Karen Kelley is originally from Jefferson City (MO). She has a Master of Music in Opera Performance from Arizona State University. In 2023, Kelley debuted as an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera, performing La Madre in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. She also performed with the Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Mary in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Messaggera in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. In the 2023-2024 season, Kelley joined Opera Idaho as an Emerging Artist, making her mainstage debut as Marcellina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Kelley is thrilled to perform as a Studio Artist during FLO’s 2025 season, where she makes her debut as Giovanna in their production of Rigoletto while also covering the role of Maddalena.

 Marieke de Koker is a South African mezzo-soprano based in the New York City area. Recent appearances include the title role in Iolanthe, Susan (The Marriage Counselor), Béatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), Liza Elliott (Lady in the Dark), and Cloud in the world premiere of Iceland. De Koker has performed in recitals and world premieres with WQXR radio, Brooklyn Theatre TV, Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra, RSG Radio, Johannesburg Opera, the International Contemporary Ensemble's Ensemble Evolution, and many more. She has received awards from the International Opera Awards Foundation, SOI Cedolins International Opera Competition, Hal Leonard Vocal Competition, Nightingale Opera Theater Competition, among others. De Koker is a founding board member of Opéra Queens and volunteers as Publishing Team Lead of the Àkójọpọ̀ Music Foundation for Pan-African Art Music.

Jason Garcia-Kakuk is a tenor from Queenstown (MD). He was most recently seen as H in Eastman Opera Theatre’s winter production of H&G, a Great and Terrible Story (Allen Shawn). In 2024, he was seen at Opera Baltimore portraying the role of Mr. Angel in Mozart’s The Impresario, featuring a reinvented libretto by Eric McKeever. Garcia-Kakuk also performed in their production of Tchaikovksy’s Eugene Onegin as Triquet and covered Lensky. Notable past roles include Pelléas in Debussy’s Impressions de Pelléas with Temple University Opera Theater and Odoardo in Handel’s Ariodante with Curtis Opera Theatre. Garcia-Kakuk holds his B.M. in Voice Performance from Temple University and is currently pursuing his M.M. in Voice Performance at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Anthony Dean Griffey.

 Korean-American baritone Eunsung Lee has performed leading operatic roles, including Il Conte in Le nozze di Figaro and Escamillo in La Tragédie de Carmen with Stony Brook Opera Theater. Lee sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with The Opera Next Door and was a Lehrer Vocal Institute fellow at the Music Academy’s 75th Anniversary. Other roles include Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Zurga (Les Pêcheurs de Perles), and Colline (La bohème). Lee was a finalist in the Ades Vocal Competition and Pasadena Vocal Competition and has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and Gerda Lissner Foundation. He also has been invited to and performed in the New York New Art Song Concert, premiering works by contemporary Korean composers, and Manhattan School of Music’s A Midsummer’s Dream of Song. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University.

 Bass-baritone Andrew Boisvert has been hailed as “thundering” (San Diego Story) with a “deep warmth” (The Rutland Herald). 2025 performance highlights include making his Opera Company of Middlebury debut as Simone in Gianni Schicchi, as well as covering Colline in their production of La bohème, singing as the Bass Soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra, joining Sarasota Opera to cover Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and covering Bartolo again in Le nozze di Figaro. Boisvert’s past engagements include Il Carceriere in Cedar Rapids Opera’s Tosca (2024), Zuniga in Indianapolis Opera’s Carmen (2023), Il Commendatore (cover) in Sarasota Opera’s Don Giovanni (2023), and Il re di Scozia in Opera Neo’s Ariodante (2022).

 A native of Brooklyn, (NY) soprano Izabella Gozzo just completed her Bachelor’s of Music in Vocal Performance at the Eastman School of Music. During the 2024-2025 season, Gozzo performed in the ensemble of both H&G, a Great and Terrible Story by Allen Shawn and Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov. In the 2023-2024 season, Gozzo made her Kodak Hall debut in Eastman Opera Theatre’s production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. She spent the summer of 2024 at Chicago Summer Opera, where she performed as First Witch in Dido and Aeneas. Gozzo is excited to join FLO as an Apprentice Artist covering Léontine and performing in the ensemble of Joseph Bologne’s The Anonymous Lover. Gozzo also excels as a pianist and, in her free time, enjoys reading and hiking. 

 Originally from Mechanicsburg (PA), soprano Sofia Mains studies at the Eastman School of Music with Katherine Ciesinski. This summer, Mains will make role debuts as Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) with Vienna Opera Academy and Papagena (The Magic Flute) with Arizona Lyric Theatre. She has previously sung Ostiaria (Le Reniement de St. Pierre) with Eastman Repertory Singers and with Opera Viva! and International Vocal Artists Academy of Payerbach. Mains sings with Collegium Musicum, Eastman’s Baroque vocal ensemble. She is passionate about citizen artistry and has worked with Washington National Opera to introduce preschool students to opera. When Mains isn’t singing, she enjoys learning languages, reading, and cooking.

 A native of Rochester (NY) and a graduate of Penfield High School, soprano Julia Tooker just finished her third year as Vocal Performance major at the Eastman School of Music. She began her classical voice training at age thirteen at the Eastman Community Music School, fueling her passion for musical theater and opera. Tooker has won numerous awards, including the National Classical Singers Competition in both musical theater and classical categories. Her performance versatility is evident in her lead roles in community theater, from Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and Cosette in Les Misérables to Vanessa in In the Heights and Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde. Tooker made her opera debut at The New Voice Festival in Boise, Idaho, last summer and recently performed in Eastman Opera's Silent Light. 

Caleb Meyerhoff, a tenor and composer from Denver (CO), just finished his third year at the Eastman School of Music, where he is pursuing a degree in Music Education with a vocal primary focus. As a performer, he has appeared in the Eastman productions Dido and Aeneas as the Sorcerer and Dialogues of the Carmelites as Commissioner 1. In addition to his vocal work, Meyerhoff is an emerging composer; his most recent composition, Love Will Always Be Blind, premiered at Eastman as part of Sparky Wiry and Cries’ SongSLAM competition. 

Tenor Jonathon Rahul Sengupta was born and raised in Rochester (NY). A recent graduate of Nazareth University, he received his Bachelors in Music in Music Performance along with a piano minor and has studied closely with Franco-American tenor Joshua Bouillon. Recent roles and staged performances include L'Aumônier/Chevalier de la Force in Nazareth Opera’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, an ensemble role in Blackfriars Theatre's Sweeney Todd and Fabrizio in their production of Light in the Piazza, ensemble in Buffalo Opera Unlimited’s Joshua’s Boots, and as a Guard in FLO’s 2023 performances of Verdi’s Aida. Sengupta is overjoyed to be working with FLO again. He would like to thank his family and friends for their continued support.

Having just completed his second year at Baldwin Wallace University studying Voice Performance, baritone Charles Bohrer is thrilled to be returning to his hometown to perform with FLO this summer. Some of his recent role credits at Baldwin Wallace University include Vicomte Cascade (The Merry Widow), Tiridate, King of Armenia (Radamisto), and Car Man (Speed Dating Tonight!). Bohrer currently studies under Professor of Voice Nancy Maultsby and Director of Opera Studies Scott Skiba and is an active member of Motet Choir under the direction of Dr. Dirk Garner at Baldwin Wallace University.

Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. In recent seasons, he has worked as a conductor or pianist on Broadway and with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, McCarter Theatre Center, and Opera Delaware, among others. From 2021-2023, he was the Director of Music and Director of the Handorf Company Artist Program at Opera Memphis. Frisco is currently the Music Director of Mannes Opera and Assistant Professor of Music at Mannes, has held faculty roles at Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, CUNY, the New School for Drama, and as he does with FLO, has served on staff with many festivals.