Christine Taylor Price invigorates opera and song audiences with her musicality and acting prowess in the stories she tells.  Most at home on stage, Christine dazzles with her “pure crystalline sound, coloratura and high flying, heavily ornamented arias,” but can equally convince you that you are back in the days of old Broadway, singing the classics in her own distinctive way. A previous semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Price has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony and at Carnegie Hall.

Ana Karneza is an actor and singer from Ptujska Gora, Slovenia, and a recent MFA graduate of Juilliard. Her stage credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Azdak), Wintertime (Maria), and Tim Blake Nelson's And Then We Were No More (Analyst).

She began her career performing at televised music festivals and concerts in Slovenia and later studied Global Theater at NYU Abu Dhabi. In 2024, she won the prestigious Lotte Lenya Competition, an international contest celebrating exceptional acting and singing. Ana is an advocate for accessibility in the arts and was the first physically disabled student at Juilliard's acting program.

Hailed for his "hearty, luxurious baritone" (Musical America), Gregory Feldmann is a rising artist on opera and recital stages alike. A winner of the 2025 Sullivan Foundation Awards,  Feldmann will return to the Glimmerglass Festival as a Hupper Family Festival Artist, singing the role of Gulglielmo in Mozart's Cosí, as well as the role of Bill Cracker in an upstate New York touring production of Kurt Weill's Happy End. Feldmann enjoyed his first season on the artist roster of the Metropolitan Opera, covering Tracy Bacon in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay as well as Dancaïre in Bizet's Carmen, the same role he performed this season at Opernhaus Zürich. Last summer, Feldmann made his "powerful" role debut in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet at the Buxton International Festival in the UK (OperaWire). He also reprised the role of Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival in Lismore, Ireland in May 2025. Highlights included appearances as Moralès in Bizet's Carmen, Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Lord in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. ​

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Feldmann lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he continues a collaboration with Michael Brofman and the Brooklyn Art Song Society. This past October, Feldmann and Brofman presented Schubert's Schwanengesang as a part of an all-day marathon of the three major Schubert song cycles.

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Feldmann is represented by Callan Coughlan-Davies and IMG Artists. He holds a Master 's of Music and an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Scarlata, and Sanford Sylvan.

Award-winning American mezzo-soprano Lisa Marie Rogali has been praised for her “warm, nuanced voice” and “spontaneity” on the stage. Her powerful stage presence and vocal versatility showcase her as an artist who excels across a variety of genres, including opera, musical theatre, and concert music.

 This season, Ms. Rogali returns to Virginia Opera to make her role debut as Angelina in La Cenerentola. She brings her magnetic Carmen to both Toledo Opera and Gulfshore Opera and returns to Detroit Opera as the Offred Double in The Handmaid’s Tale. On the concert stage, Ms. Rogali is pleased to join Asheville Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, Virginia Symphony Orchestrafor Handel’s Messiah and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for their Broadway Through the Ages concert.

 In the 2024-25 season, Ms. Rogali made her debut as the title role of Carmenwith both Virginia Opera and Florentine Opera, a portrayal hailed by the Virginian Pilot as, “not to be missed, a bang-up performance.” As part of Sarasota Opera’s Winter Festival, she reprised her charming Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, garnering high praise from Opera with Opera News who called her, “a Rossini star in the making.” She returned to the South Florida Symphony as the alto soloist in their annual Messiah, in addition to singing Paquette in their semi-staged concert production of Candide. She concluded the season by bringing her celebrated Rosina to Central City Opera.

​During the 2023-24 season, Ms. Rogali joined the Detroit Opera’s Resident Artist Program, singing the roles of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and the Dog/Woodpecker in The Cunning Little Vixen. She also made her role debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with North Carolina Opera and performed Der Trommler in Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. Ms. Rogali was named a Finalist in the Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition and was awarded the Jonathan Pell People’s Choice Award. On the concert stage, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as the alto soloist in Mozart’s “Coronation Mass” with MidAmerica Productions. That summer, she performed the title role in The Rose Elf by David Herzberg with OrpheusPDX.

Jason Zacher has garnered national acclaim as a versatile and promising emerging talent in opera, concert, and musical theatre. Praised for his “resonant baritone voice, acting skills to burn, and most important, an alluring persona that dominated the stage every moment he was on” (Opera News), Zacher continues to captivate audiences with his dynamic presence and vocal command.

This season, he makes company and role debuts with Portland Opera as Colline in La bohème, Tulsa Opera as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, and Sarasota Opera as Olin Blitch in Susannah. He also joins Chattanooga Symphony and Opera as the bass soloist in Verdi’s Requiem.

To date, Mr. Zacher has received top accolades from competitions and organizations including the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Kurt Weill Foundation, Jensen Foundation, Annapolis Opera, James Toland Vocal Arts, Rochester Oratorio Society, Opera Birmingham, and National Opera Association, among others. He holds degrees from Montclair State University (B.M. Music Education) and the University of Houston (M.M. Vocal Performance).

With his mellifluous "honey-voice," Tenor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes has emerged as an exciting young presence in the world of opera, drawing attention and admiration from audiences and critics alike. In the current season, Mr. Rhodes makes his role debut as Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers by Gregory Spears with Opera Parallele. Shortly after, he makes his highly anticipated house debut with The Lyric Opera Chicago, where he is set to reprise his role as Policeman 2, as well as cover The Son, in Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s critically acclaimed opera, Blue. Additional appearances this season include concerts with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Apollo’s Fire, as well as his Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York, where he will appear as the soloist in the world premiere of Moravec’s All Shall Rise and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang.

Mr. Rhodes is a recent graduate of the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist program. During his residency there, he frequented several roles including Pong in a brand-new production of Turandot directed by Francesca Zambello. Additional roles at Washington National Opera include The Hippo in The Lion, The Unicorn and Me, A Priest/Piquillo cover* in Songbird, and Frank in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson, a character he first brought to life at The Glimmerglass Festival in 2019.

Mr. Rhodes has been honored to spend the past three summers as a young artist at The Glimmerglass Festival. In his final season there, he covered the title role in Leonard Bernstein's Candide and portrayed Cacambo, receiving praise as a "big-voiced standout" by the Wall Street Journal. Previous years have seen him as the Man in Armor and Priest #1 in The Magic Flute and Cherubiel in the world premiere of Holy Ground.

In 2022, the Houston District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition recognized Mr. Rhodes as an encouragement award winner. In 2019, he received the 1st place Neva Pilgrim Award in the Civic Morning Musicals Competition and had the distinction of being named a recipient of Eastman’s William Warfield Scholarship Award. Rhodes holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from The Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester. In addition, he recently graduated from Rice University, where he received his Masters in Opera Performance.

Praised for his “healthy and soaring tenor voice” (Herald Times), and “brilliant physical grace, timing, and precision” (Broadway World),  Korean-American tenor Brad Bickhardt is vibrant and versatile in both opera and musical theatre. His 2024 season brought role debuts as Don Ottavio with Arizona Opera, as well as creating the role of Felix in the world premiere of Greg Kallor’s Frankenstein. He also appeared as Tybalt in a new production of Roméo et Juliette directed by Patricia Racette.  Mr. Bickhardt made a company debut with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as A Priest in Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei, directed by James Robinson, a company he returns to in 2025. In 2023, he starred as Tamino with Arizona Opera, and significant role debuts in 2022 included creating the role of Colin in the world premiere of We Wear the Sea Like a Coat, Tanzmeister & Scaramuccio in a new production of Ariadne auf Naxos with Arizona Opera, as well as Jumper in The Falling and the Rising. Mr. Bickhardt also reprised the role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at Muddy River Opera. His 2021 season saw a company debut with Opera Naples as Gastone in La traviata and Big Deal/Diesel in West Side Story, as well as covering both Alfredo and Tony. He also returned to Opera Saratoga as a Festival Artist in productions of Man of La Mancha and Don Quichotte at Comacho’s Wedding, and remained in New York state with engagements at Tri-Cities Opera and Opera Ithaca. 

Mr. Bickhardt is proudly an alumnus of the young artist programs of The Marion Roose Pullin Studio at Arizona Opera, The Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The Glimmerglass Festival, Tri Cities Opera, Opera Naples, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Saratoga, and Charlottesville Opera in addition to receiving his Bachelor and Master degrees in Vocal Performance from Indiana University. 

Lauren Torey is a 22-year-old mezzo-soprano from just outside of Toronto, Canada. Based in Manhattan, Torey recently completed her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Studies at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Elizabeth Bishop. Torey has been honing her craft as a vocalist for over 18 years. 

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Select opera credits at The Juilliard School include the role of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Mrs. Grose (cover) in Turn of the Screw, Thelma (cover) in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, La Maestra (cover) in Suor Angelica, and the chorus of Les Dialogues des Carmelites, La Clemenza di Tito, Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and Purcell’s King Arthur. Torey has also been a part of many musical productions including Therapist in Therapy (The Juilliard School), including Fiona in Shrek the Musical (Lower Ossington Theatre [LOT]); Golde in Fiddler on the Roof (Etobicoke School of the Arts); Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (Innovative Arts); The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (LOT); Serena Katz in Fame (First Act Youth Company [FAYC]); Snoopy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (PAVAS); 13: The Musical (FAYC); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (PAVAS); Footloose (Innovative Arts).

In addition to all of this, Torey is an avid tennis and volleyball player, golfer, and runner. She is a hobbyist painter, embroiderer, knitter, and puzzler in her free time.

Baritone William Raskin, praised for his “vocal agility and tenderness” (Cleveland Classical), communicates authenticity in every performance.

William is fresh off a successful summer at The Glimmerglass Festival, displaying his “flexible and engaging” (Opera News) voice in performances of The House on Mango Street as Casanova. He also covered the roles of Mr.

and Lee Randolph in Sunday in the Park with George. This fall, William stars in the world premiere of Glen Cortese’s 221B: A Sherlock Holmes Opera in the role of John Watson, presented by the University of Northern Colorado. William also joins the Zephyr Symphony in San Francisco as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Last season, he covered the Official in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Sarasota Opera, sang Schaunard in La bohème with the Janesville Choral Union, and joined Ohio Light Opera as Giuseppe Palmieri in The Gondoliers and Armand Brissard in The Count of Luxembourg. Other recent roles include Billy Bigelow (Carousel), Giove (La Calisto), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), and Dandini/Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola). William studied both piano and vocal performance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before deciding to pursue voice full-time. Despite having a demanding course-load, he took ballet and jazz classes through the UW-Madison Dance Department. “A real terpsichorean talent” (Operetta Research Center), William has appeared as a featured dancer in The Rake’s Progress (The Glimmerglass Festival) and Jake Heggie’s Two Remain (UW–Madison). He has also appeared in The Nutcracker as the Party Father/Russian Corps (Madison Ballet) and the Harlequin/Cavalier (The Dance Factory). His training includes ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, and modern.

William appeared as the baritone soloist in Dr. Bill Banfield’s Symphony No. 14:Revelation. Working directly with the composer marked a defining moment in his artistic journey, revealing his passion for both innovative repertoire and collaborative artistry.

He earned his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he studied under baritone Paul Rowe. He is dedicated to community engagement through the arts, often collaborating with the Janesville Choral Union, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the Madison Savoyards.