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Bianca Showalter Soprano
Biography

Soprano Bianca Showalter has performed in venues across the San Francisco Bay Area including Goat Hall Productions, Capitol Opera Sacramento, the Green Music Festival, Project Applause, Cinnabar Opera Theater, Kent Nagano's Leather Factory Opera, West Bay Opera, Sonoma City Opera, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Sonoma County Choral Society. In addition to her performances in the Bay Area, Bianca made her debut in Seattle Washington with the world renowned Northwest Puppet Center as Mozart's Queen of the Night.  Recently she returned to Colorado and is enjoying new performance adventures with High Desert Opera and Loveland Opera Theatre.

A graduate of Sonoma State University where she was the recipient of the prestigious Person Talent Scholarship award, her operatic roles include Königin der Nacht in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Madame Armfeldt in Sondheim's A Little Night Music, Constanza in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata, and Holy Spirit in John Partridge's Harden Not Your Hearts. She has also been the soprano soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Mark Alburger's Ecclesiastes, and W.A. Mozart's Requiem.

Ms. Showalter has been the recipient of many awards including Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, First Place Winner in the Redwood Empire NATS Vocal Scholarship Competition, and an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions San Francisco District.

Voice teachers include Soprano Susan Witt-Butler, Mezzo-Soprano Bonnie Brooks, and Soprano Jan Drazek.

Upcoming performances include the role of Buttercup in Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore with Loveland Opera Theatre, soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the Messiah Choral Society of Grand Junction, and soprano soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra. Please visit the "Schedule" page for more information.