Praised for her engaging stage presence and ‘‘full…nuanced’’ voice (Boston Musical Intelligencer), mezzo-soprano Lauren Cook was most recently seen performing LeAnn in a workshop of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia. Notable stage credits include Poppea (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Mélisande (Impressions de Pelléas), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Second Lady (The Magic Flute), Tina (Flight), and Eliza (Dark Sisters). Ms. Cook has performed as a soloist in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center as well as Boston’s Symphony Hall and Museum of Fine Arts. In the 2019 season, Ms. Cook made her debuts with Opera Iowa and Des Moines Metro Opera. She has also appeared with Opera Louisiane, Guérilla Opera, Odyssey Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Projects, American Opera Projects, Seagle Music Colony, La Musica Lirica, and the Louisiana Opera Outreach Program.

Camron Gray is a native of Winchester, Tennessee. Mr. Gray studied at Tennessee Tech University, receiving two bachelor’s in Music Education and Spanish. Mr. Gray completed his M.M. in Vocal Performance at the School of Music, Theater & Dance (SMTD) studying under George Shirley and is currently completing the Specialist of Music degree at U of M studying voice with Stanford Olsen. Mr. Gray has performed as Tom Snout in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a faded silent film star, Larry Renault, in William Bolcomb’s latest opera Dinner at Eight, as well as the authoritative, fully-revised version of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, as Robbins and Crab Man in February 2018. During the summer of 2018 season, Mr. Gray sang with Cincinnati Opera as a chorister in La Traviata (Verdi), The Flying Dutchman (Wagner), and Another Brick in the Wall (Bilodeau). In 2019, he was featured in the Glimmerglass Festival as a Stevedore in Jerome Kern’s classic, Show Boat, and the world premiere of Blue by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson.

Bass-Baritone Cameron Jackson, of Albemarle North Carolina, is a recent graduate of the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. During his tenure as a Fletcher fellow, Mr. Jackson portrayed the roles of Don Magnifico in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Golaud in Peter Brooks’ adaptation of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Der Musiklehrer in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, and Alvaro in Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas. Mr. Jackson’s 2017/2018 season included debuts with Piedmont Opera (Haly, L’italiana in Algeri) and the Princeton Festival Opera (Don Fernando, Fidelio); as well as winning the North Carolina District Encouragement Award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Described as possessing a “rich and powerful voice” (CVNC), he has also performed with Opera Wilmington, the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, and Magnolia Baroque.