Laura Mitchell

California born soprano, Laura Mitchell, graduated in 2009 with an Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Through CCM she performed as Fiordiligi, Musetta, and as Alcina in Handel's Alcina. In 2005, Laura received her B.A. in Vocal Performance with a minor in Mathematics from UC San Diego, where she had performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Mlle. Silverpeal in The Impresario and as a soloist with the world-renowned percussion ensemble red fish blue fish under Steven Schick. She was also heard as a soprano soloist with the La Jolla Symphony and the Bach Collegium San Diego.

Laura has been a New York Lyric Opera Artist in Residence and a member of the Sarasota Opera Apprentice Program, the International Vocal Institute in Croatia, and Oper Schloss Laubach in Germany. Among her performances throughout the New York area, Laura has sung the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with the New York Lyric Opera, Un chiffre/Le Berger in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les Sortileges with Pocket Opera New York, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with Martha Cardona Theater, and Clarina in Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio with New Jersey’s Garden State Opera.

Her recent participation in the Songfest Festival in California brought her in to association with Jake Heggie, John Musto and especially Libby Larsen, with whom Laura has a continuing collaboration refining and reworking Larsen’s song cycle Late in the Day which she is scheduled to record in the fall of 2011.