Soprano Corinne Winters, originally from Frederick, MD, has completed a Master of Music degree in vocal performance from the Peabody Conservatory, having recently obtained her Bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Towson University. Ms. Winters is a third year Resident Artist at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she studies with Ruth Golden. So far at AVA, Corinne has performed Nannetta in Falstaff, Despina in Così fan tutte, Monica in Respighi's La Fiamma, and Norina in Don Pasquale. With the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Corinne perfomed the Second Gossip and covered Rosina in John Corgliano's The Ghosts of Versailles. Upcoming roles include a return to Opera theatre of St. Louis for Mrs. Anderssen in Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Countess (cover) in The Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Lehar's Giuditta with Concert Operetta Theatre, and Mimì (cover) in Puccini’s La Bohème with Crested Butte Music Festival. Corinne also covered Mimì at Lake George Opera, in addition to performing Baroness Gondremarck in Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne. Other recent roles include Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Oberlin in Italy program, Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann and Pamina in Papageno! (an outreach translation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute) with Peabody Opera, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief and Ms. Segstrom in A Little Night Music with Towson University, and the title role in Seymour Barab’s children’s opera, Little Red Riding Hood at Strathmore Hall.  
Equally at home in concert repertoire, Corinne has sung the soprano solos in Mendelssohn's Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Beethoven’s Mass in C, and the Bach messa in b-minor. Ms. Winters made her European debut in 2005 with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. There, she performed on orchestral operetta concerts, and was chosen for a six-member musical theatre touring cabaret entitled “The Hundredth Anniversary Cabaret.” In addition to receiving the Anita Erdman Award in Opera and Peabody Merit Scholarship from Peabody Conservatory, Corinne has won prizes in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (National Semifinalist,1st place New England Region), George London (honorable mention), Mario Lanza, Kennett Symphony, Annapolis Opera, and Florida Grand Opera competitions, was a US representative in the Pavarotti International Voice Competition in Modena, Italy, and was nominated for a Sara Tucker Grant in 2008 and 2010. 

Lyric Coloratura Soprano Megan Monaghan was recently hailed by Opera News as "...A voice of pure silver, easily negotiating coloratura flights of fancy with exquisite musicianship..." for her role of Gilda in Dayton Opera’s production of Rigoletto.  Performances during the 2006-2007 season included Mabel in Glimmerglass Opera's The Pirates of Penzance, Juliette in both Anchorage Opera and Wichita Grand Opera's Roméo et Juliette, and Gilda in Rigoletto with both Madison Opera and Bob Jones University Opera.  Performances during the 2007-2008 season included Euridice in L'Orfeo with Glimmerglass Opera, Musetta in Opera Pacific's La Bohème, Ah-Joe (c) in Leoni’s L’Oracolo at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall with Teatro Grattacielo, as well as a recording of Lori Laitman’s new opera, The Scarlet Letter, with the composer.  In addition, Ms. Monaghan’s 2007-2008 concert highlights included a recital, The Music of George Crumb, in collaboration with the composer and solo performances with the OC Pops.  Upcoming performances include Hanna Glawari in Dayton Opera’s production of The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira in Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Don Giovanni, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Intermountain Opera, Stella in Teatro Grattacielo’s I Gioielli Della Madonna, and Gilda in Nashville Opera’s production of Rigoletto. Upcoming Concert work includes featured performances on the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming Gershwin Gala, Teatro Grattacielo’s Evening of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Concert Operetta Theatre’s The Music of the American Operetta, Annapolis Opera’s Opera Lite, Vox Amadeus Orchestra’s Mozart Gala including the Missa in C Minor and Le nozze di Figaro Highlights at the Kimmel Center, as well as recitals with her voice and guitar/lute duo, Due Colori. 
Performances in the 2005-2006 season included Micaëla in Carmen with Dayton Opera, Floriana in Zazà at Alice Tully Hall Lincoln Center, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with Madison Opera, Gilda (c) in Rigoletto with Florida Grand Opera, Soloist in Symphony in the Cities with Pacific Symphony, and Soloist in A Night of Berstein with Madison Symphony.  Ms. Monaghan’s engagements during the 2004-2005 season included Cunegonde in Candide at the Teatro Argentina, Rome, Clomiri in Handel’s Imeneo at Glimmerglass Opera, Barbarina and Susanna (c) in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Pacific, Gilda in Rigoletto with both Dayton Opera and Eugene Opera and Soloist in Belle Voci Concert with Eugene Orchestra. In addition, Megan also recorded Maestro Lorin Maazel’s new opera 1984 with the conductor before its’ premiere at Covent Garden.
Ms. Monaghan has received rave reviews for her interpretations of other lyric-coloratura roles including Lucia in Rape of Lucretia, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cunegonde in Candide, Musetta in La Bohème, Micaëla in Carmen, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Euridice in L’Orfeo,Abigail and Mary Warren in The Crucible, Floriana in Zazà, Eve in Eve’s Odd’s, Clomiri in Imeneo, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, and Pasha in Mavra.  She has performed at leading opera companies throughout the United States and Europe including Cincinnati Opera, Opera Pacific, Madison Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Lucca, Dayton Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Eugene Opera, Festival Euro Mediterraneo, Anchorage Opera, and Lyric Opera Cleveland.
Ms. Monaghan has been a featured soloist with Dayton Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, Eugene Orchestra, Opera Pacific Symphony, Madison Symphony, and Pacific Symphony Orchestra.  Recent performances include a Soloist in Belle Voci Concert with Eugene Orchestra, a Soloist in A Night of Bernstein with Madison Symphony as well as roles such as Adele in a concert version of Die Fledermaus, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.  Other notable performances include a concert at the White House and singing the role of Musetta in a special performance of La Bohème held at the historical home of Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, Italy.
Ms. Monaghan has been awarded first place honors in such solo competitions as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions of both the S. Ohio and S. California districts, Agnes Fowler Competition and the Klose-Seybold Opera Competition.  She was nominated by Glimmerglass Opera to be the 2004 recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant.  Megan Monaghan is a master’s graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Barbara Honn.

Baritone Daniel Collins has a “deep, rich voice” building his path for a long standing operatic career. Mr. Collins received his Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas where he performed multiple operatic roles. Papageno was the first of these roles which Daniel repeated with El Paso Opera, the Louisville Ballet and Summer Opera Theater in Washington, DC. Tim Page, with The Washington Post, described Mr. Collins as a “funny, exuberant and enormously likable” Papageno during Summer Opera Theater’s 2006 performance of Die Zauberflöte. In the fall of 2005, the Post praised Mr. Collins in the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia’s Barber of Seville as a “bright and bouncy” Figaro who delivered his lines with “aplomb.” Additional highlights from Daniel’s emerging career also include Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro, Masetto, Sharpless, Escamillo, Sid, Dandini and Bottom. Mr. Collins has sung at the Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Center in Dallas, the French Arts Alliance in New York City, the President’s Church of St. John’s Episcopal and the White House. In the 2007-2008 season, Daniel was praised by the Opera News Review Online for his “haughty” Mandarin in Kentucky Opera’s Turandot. While a member of the Kentucky Opera Studio Program, Mr. Collins also sang Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors as well as the 1st Officer, 2nd Commissioner and Jailor, in Dialogues of the Carmelites, with uniquely menacing personalities. Daniel has recently sung with Washington National Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Southwest, Fort Worth Opera, Concert Royal, Ashlawn Highland Festival, Belcantanti Opera and Amarillo Opera. Mr. Collins currently makes his home in Louisville, KY.

Mezzo-soprano Erika Person debuted at Annapolis Opera as Mercedes in Carmen in 2008.  Signature roles include Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma (Delaware Valley Opera Company), Suzuki in Madama Butterfly (Opera Company of the Highlands (OCH)), Hansel in Hansel and Gretel (OCH), Mercedes in Carmen (Opera Delaware, Tri-Cities Opera), and the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors (Tri-Cities Opera).  In 2006, she debuted at Carnegie Hall with the Opera Orchestra of New York in Montemezzi’s L’Amore dei Tre Re.  Other career highlights include Mrs. McLean (Susannah) for Indianapolis Opera, Lalume (Kismet) for Tri-Cities Opera, and Iphigénie en Tauride at Spoleto USA, directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser.  As a young artist, she appeared with Lake George Opera as Mercedes and as Zulma (L’Italiana in Algeri), and at Dicapo Opera Theatre as the Third Lady (The Magic Flute), Flora Bervoix (La traviata), Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly, La Scala and Brescia versions),and in the parody Opera Senza Rancor.
Equally at home in operetta and classical musical theater, Ms. Person has regularly been featured with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) since her 2004 City Center debut in the title role of Iolanthe.  This season she performed the role of Dame Hannah in Ruddigore to critical acclaim.  Other roles with NYGASP include Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Ruth and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance, Phoebe in The Yeomen of the Guard, Tessa in The Gondoliers and Cousin Hebe in H.M.S. Pinafore.  Other favorite crossover roles include Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Sarah Brown (Guys & Dolls), Lady Thiang (The King & I), and Martha Jefferson (1776).
Oratorio and concert repertoire includes Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, John Harbison’s Mirabai Songs, Les Nuits d’Été by Berlioz, and The Songs of Abelard by Norman dello Joio, plus premieres of Mein Lebenslauf by Georg Schönberg and I Should Be Speechless by Carlos Castañedas, Jr.
She is thrilled to return to Annapolis for Opera Lite!  Upcoming engagements include Ruth in Pirates with NYGASP in Scranton, and Mozart's Requiem with the Oratorio Society of Queens in May, 2010.

Tenor Michael Gallant is pleased to return to Annapolis Opera to sing in Opera Lite.  Michael recently sang the lead role of Niki in Oscar Straus' Waltzdream with the Philadelphia Concert Operetta Theater.  He makes frequent concert appearances in the Philadelphia region with groups such as the Ocean City Pops and The Three Tenors concert series with Jeff Uhlig.  In 2007 Michael  was named the first place winner of the Washington DC Vocal Arts Society Discovery Series, through which he made his Kennedy Center recital debut.   An active opera singer, he has performed the roles of Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia with Annapolis Opera,  Tamino in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Fenton in Verdi’s Falstaff, and Laurie in Mark Adamo’s Little Women.  He has sung with companies throughout the country, and was an apprentice artist with both Central City Opera and the Ohio Light Opera Company, where he sang the roles of Nanki Poo in the Mikado, Captain Tarnitz in the Student Prince, and Narrator in Camelot.  
In addition, Mr. Gallant is a sought after oratorio soloist and recording artist.  He performed at the Washington DC National Cathedral as the tenor soloist in the Berlioz
Te Deum with Riley Lewis and the National Cathedral Chorale.  He also appeared as soloist for Saint-Saens’s Christmas Oratorio with the New Dominion Chorale under the direction of Thomas Beveridge.  He has performed the St. John and St. Matthew Passion Evangelist roles, Bach’s Magnificat, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation, as well as numerous Bach cantatas with organizations such as the Detroit Chamber Players, the University Musical Society, Washington Summer Sings, the New Jersey Master Chorale and the Baltimore Master Chorale.  An advocate of works by living composers, his discography includes recordings of The Golem and Gimpel the Fool for Sony Records Project, Easter Joy for Equilibrium, and most recently a new recording of sacred arias for the Hal Leonard Corporation.  This spring Michael will perform in Bruckner's Te Deum with the New Jersey Master Chorale.
Mr. Gallant holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Randall Reid-Smith, Martin Katz, and Theodore Morrison.  He also attended the Eastman School of Music.

Greek-American bass-baritone Stephanos Tsirakoglou has sung many signature buffo roles including Dottor Dulcamara in L'Elisir d'Amore, Dottor Bartolo in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the title role in Falstaff, and Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance. 
Mr. Tsirakoglou has also had great success on the concert stage having sung the baritone and bass solos in the Mozart, Fauré, Brahms, and Howells Requiems, Bach's St. John Passion and Magnificat, Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Messiah, and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Ode to St. Cecilia's Day. 
Mr. Tsirakoglou was recently seen as a guest artist singing the Musiklehrer in the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos.  He has  performed as a principal artist with the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Utah Festival Opera Company, and the Opera Company of Middlebury among others, and has previously been engaged as an apprentice artist with Lake George Opera and Opera New Jersey. 
Mr. Tsirakoglou currently studies with Mr. Mark Oswald, Metropolitan Opera baritone and full time faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music.