Tri-Cities Opera announces the immediate need for a baritone for our 2023–24 season. The contract dates are as follows:
August 26–October 27, 2023
December 3–17, 2023
January 22–May 26, 2024
Applicants should be available for the entire season as outlined above.
The baritone track includes the following roles:
A weekly stipend of $400 and housing is provided. Artists are responsible for their own transportation to and from Binghamton and while in town. Transportation is provided for educational program tour performances.
1) Completed application form via YAP Tracker
2) Current résumé in PDF format
3) Recent high-resolution headshot
4) Two (2) video recordings of pieces in contrasting styles, preferably one opera aria in Italian, and one musical theatre selection
Applications are only being accepted through YAP Tracker.
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Maine-based soprano Kate Fogg (she/her) has been praised for her “rich coloratura” (Ludwig Van) and “impeccably placed, safe and effective” voice (Le Devoir). She is a recent graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where she earned her Master of Music in Voice and Opera. This summer, she joins Toronto Opera Festival as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (role debut), and will attend Music Academy of The West as a Lehrer Vocal Fellow, competing in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and singing Aveline Mortimer in Elizabeth Cree. She was the 2025 first-place winner of the Wirth Vocal Prize. Recent role debuts include Clara Johnson (The Light In The Piazza); Nella (Gianni Schicchi); La Fée (Cendrillon); Governess (The Turn of The Screw). She will perform a June recital with Bar Harbor Music Festival, and has recently given recitals at the Canadian Opera Company’s RBA and The Canadian Center for Architecture. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM
Kevin Douglas Jasaitis is a versatile American baritone performing opera, oratorio, and musical theater. Kevin most recently performed as a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, performing in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette (Gregorio), and in A Light in the Piazza (The Priest). Kevin also performed this year with Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist. Other recent opera credits include performing with Opera Neo in their production of L’elisir d’amore in San Diego, as well as La Traviata (Germont) with City Lyric Opera. A recent fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, Kevin performed works such as Un clin d’Oeil by Tebogo Monnakgotla, and Being Music by Charles Fussell. Past concert credits include the Oyster Bay Music Festival, Fidelio (Rocco) with Concerts in the Village, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Florilegium Chamber Choir. Recent opera credits include Raphaël Lucas’ Confession (Father Francis) and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Marco) with Purchase Opera. Kevin holds a BM in Opera from the Purchase Conservatory and an MM in Opera from the Mannes School of Music. WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM
Kanade Motomura is an emerging mezzo-soprano resident artist with Tri-Cities Opera for the 2026–2027 season, where she will perform the roles of Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel. This past summer, she was a Studio Artist with Central City Opera, performing scenes from the title role in Cenerentola and Jo March in Little Women. Kanade is a graduate of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she studied under Dr. Robin Rice. During her time at Rice, she sang Meg Page in Falstaff and Ruggiero in Alcina. In the spring of 2025, she participated in the Rice’s annual Aleko Residency with Ryan McKinney, performing a scene as Sister Helen from Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking alongside McKinney. INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE
Lauded for their versatile characterizations and “crystal-clear high register” (Opera Today), Italian-American soprano Sofia Scattarreggia is a quickly emerging force on the operatic scene. They have appeared in a wide variety of roles such as Blanche in Dialogues des Carmelites, Florencia in Florencia en el Amazonas, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, among others. Most recently, Dr. Scattarreggia covered the roles of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and appeared as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Annapolis Opera. Scattarreggia is a three-time award winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition (St. Louis District Winner, 2026; Buffalo-Toronto Encouragement Award Winner, 2024; Buffalo-Toronto District Winner, 2023). Recent competition appearances include as a Finalist in the Opera Naples Luciano Pavarotti Competition (2026) and as a semifinalist in the George and Nora London Competition (2026), among others. They received their Doctor of Musical Arts in 2025 from the Eastman School of Music under the instruction of soprano Nicole Cabell. WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TIKTOK | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE
TCO offers opera singers in the early stages of their professional careers a unique blend of instruction and practical experience.
Most Resident Artists have completed both a Bachelor’s and Master of Music Degree. Resident Artists are featured throughout the season as leading, featured, and/or supporting roles in mainstage productions. Performances occur at the Forum Theatre, our rented 1,500-seat performance venue, and the recently-renovated Savoca Hibbitt Hall at the Tri-Cities Opera Center.
Resident Artists receive practical experience as they rehearse and perform in:
Resident Artists also hone their acting, stagecraft, movement, diction, role interpretation, and audition skills. Instruction occurs at the Tri-Cities Opera Center, in the private studios of our artistic staff, and the Forum Theatre and includes:
Founded in 1949 as a singers workshop, TCO enters its 77th season under the creative direction of Artistic Director Patrick Hansen and Music Director Giovanni Reggioli.
Applications are only being accepted through YAP Tracker.
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Tri-Cities Opera is proud to have a collaborative relationship with Binghamton University, providing auditioned and selected students with professional stage experience. Since 1979, Tri-Cities Opera has collaborated with Binghamton University’s Master of Music in Opera program to create a unique and exceptional program combining the professional expertise that Tri-Cities Opera can offer with the academic and practical studies provided by Binghamton University. The teaching artists bring a vast experience of long and continuing careers in opera to the program. Students complete a minimum of 35 graduate credit hours in music courses, including masterclasses, studio voice, theory, history, lyric diction, coaching, vocal literature, movement, and acting.
