{ ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF }

Elizabeth G. Long, who became the first administrative professional hired by FLO, began her tenure in March of 2019. She has fifteen years of management and fundraising experience. Prior to her position with FLO, Long served as Resource Development Coordinator for Main Street Alabama (MSA, Birmingham, AL), where she was responsible for management of its fundraising program. Long also has served as Grants Management Specialist with the Alabama Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers (Montgomery, AL), Executive Director of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (OH) and Marketing/PR Manager of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra (DE). Long was born and raised in Emporia, KS, received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and went on to earn a graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music through their Arts Administration program.  She has been married to Curtis Long, currently the president of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, for 26 years.

Kasi has her degree in Stage Direction and a myriad of management, design, and performance credits in the opera, theatre, and film industries, having worked on 14 stage productions last calendar year alone. Marshall first worked with FLO as the Costume Designer for our 2019 Young Artist Program production of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK. Since then, she has assumed numerous roles and responsibilities. In 2024 Marshall joined our twelve month staff as our Community Engagement & Operations Director, supporting our behind the scenes processes leading up to, during, and after the summer opera festival. She oversees community concerts/recitals, special events, as well as system development, and daily administrative tasks. During our summer productions she steps out of the office to be hands-on in production as our Assistant Director of Production and Props Master, roles she also embodied last summer culminating on our production of AIDA at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre. In addition to costuming, she was also the Stage Director for our 2023 Fall YAP Tour of GOLDIE B LOCKS & THE THREE SINGING BEARS, and she will again direct this fall's tour. 

Lyric Soprano Jessica Moss recently performed the role of Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva

Padrona in Duluth Minnesota and reprised the role of Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro with

Sunny Side Opera, Inc. in Tampa Florida. Other notable roles from previous performances

include Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen with Opera Theatre of Connecticut, Monica in Menotti’s The Medium with Northern Lights Opera, Zina in Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters and Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Miami Music Festival, Cendrillon from Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon with Houston Operativo, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan Tutte and Gretel from Hänsel und Gretel by Humperdinck with The Peabody Opera, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Amalfi Coast Opera Festival. In scenes programs she has sung leading prima donnas Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème, Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Nedda in Pagliacci, and in the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. This summer Jessica will be covering the role of Marzelline in Buffalo’s Sotto Voce’s production of Fidelio.

In Competition, Jessica was Grand Prize winner in the Charleston Symphony Young Artists

Competition, First Place winner in the NATS Regional Competition, and a finalist in the Hal

Leonard Art Song Competition and Civic Morning Musical Competition. An avid recitalist,

Jessica has appeared on the concert stage as soloist in the Vivaldi Gloria, Handel’s Messiah,

Schubert’s Mass in G, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Berg’s Sieben Frühe Lieder, Debussy’s

Proses Lyriques and Wolf’s complete Italienisches Liederbuch.

Jessica has participated in masterclasses led by Metropolitan Opera singers Ben Heppner, Eric Owens, Sherril Milnes, Michael Sylvester, Erie Mills, and Jonathan Beyer, and Eastman School of Music professors, Timothy Long, Jan Opalach and Wilson Southerland. She holds a M.M. In Vocal Performance from Peabody Conservatory where she studied with Phyllis Bryn-Julson and a B.S. in Music Performance from Roberts Wesleyan College in Voice as a student of Constance Fee. You can find her on FaceBook and Instagram @JEMSoprano.

Award winning soprano Rose Kearin is a native of Houston, Tx. She is an active recitalist, performer, and teacher. She is a soloist for Texas Master Chorale and Music Chez Moi. A finalist in many competitions, Rose Kearin was awarded second prize in the Lyra International Art Song Competition in 2022. Fall 2023, she was in Rochester, New York doing outreach for Finger Lakes Opera where she has been a returning young artist in the 2019, 2020, and 2021 seasons. Her recital schedule took her to Rochester, NY (2021, 2024) and Eureka Springs, AR, (2022)  as well as around Houston (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024). She has been a Young Artist with Opera in the Ozarks, Finger Lakes Opera, Singing is Sicily, and The Art Song Preservation Society of New York, to name a few. Rose was recently seen in Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s production of The Pirates of Penzance. 

She recently branched out from her performing and teaching schedule to become part of Finger Lakes Opera’s administrative team as Media, Young Artists & Summer Festival Manager. 

She has her BM from Oberlin Conservatory and MM from The Eastman School of Music. 

Guatemalan-Colombian soprano Mariana Iguavita is a second-year graduate Voice student in the MM Performance and Literature program and the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate at the Eastman School of Music. 

She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.M. in Voice and Opera Performance, where she performed the roles of Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Elena in Rota’s The Florentine Straw Hat, the Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

Mariana has appeared as a guest soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, at the Symphony’s Summer Nights Concert. In 2024–2025, she became the Buffalo-Toronto District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and competed at the Great Lakes Region, in Detroit, Michigan. She covered the role of Margarita Xirgu in Eastman Opera Theatre’s production of Ainadamar.  

In 2026, Mariana will perform the role of Rosalinde in Eastman’s production of Die Fledermaus and will attend Music Academy of the West as a 2026 Lehrer Voice Fellow.

In the summer of 2025, Mariana worked at Finger Lakes Opera and Eastman Summer as an Administrative Intern. Currently, Mariana is the Marketing and Development Associate at FLO.

In the Fall of 2026, Mariana will join the Artist Diploma program at The Glenn Gould School of Music – Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Canada.