Singer/Actress & Voice Teacher Lisa Golda
  • BMH 5
  • BMH 3
  • BMH 1
  • BMH 4
  • BMH 2
  • BMH 6
  • BMH 7
  • BMH 8

RECENT PERFORMANCES & WORK, 2008-2010

  • Playwright, Sex, Drugs, & the American Way, Pink Banana Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
  • Various mothers, It’s Your Mother!, Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
  • First Witch, Macbeth, Off the Wall Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
  • Vixen, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, The Bubbler Theatre, Manitowoc, WI
  • Chick the Stick, Crimes of the Heart, Cedarburg Players, Grafton, WI
  • Jenny, Company, Off the Wall Theatre
  • *Vocal Director, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Soulstice Theater, Milwaukee, WI
  • “Audition Idol”, Boulevard Ensemble Studio Theatre
  • Martha Jefferson, 1776, Sheboygan Theatre Company, Sheboygan, WI
  • Maria Merelli, Lend Me a Tenor, Soulstice Theater
  • *Vocal/Italian Diction coach, Lend Me a Tenor, Soulstice Theater
  • Anna Leonowens, The King and I, Sheboygan Theatre Company
  • Rose Alvarez, Bye Bye Birdie, Sheboygan Theatre Company
  • Teaching Artist/Student Production Director, Chicago Opera Theater (08-10)
  • Adjunct Faculty, Voice, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (Fall 08 & 09)
  • Freelance reporter, Classical Singer Magazine (national publication)

OPERATIC HIGHLIGHTS, 2000-2006

  • Master’s of Music in Vocal Performance, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (’06)
  • Alto Section Leader, Trinity Episcopal (Bloomington, IN) Dr. Marilyn Keiser, Dir.
  • Messiah, soprano soloist, St. Mark’s Methodist, (Bloomington, IN) Jonathan Ng, Dir.
  • Assistantship as costumer for 25+ Indiana University Opera Ballet Theater productions
  • An American Composers’ Recital, Old Church BB Recital Series, Portland, OR
  • Operaworks Training Program, Ann Baltz, Los Angeles, CA
  • Portland State University (PSU) Opera Intern, Portland, OR
  • First Lady, Die Zauberflöte, PSU, (role w/orchestra)

1995-1999

  • Portland Opera Guild Recitalist
  • International Vocal Arts Institute w/Joan Dornemann (Metropolitan Opera)                      *sponsored by Portland Opera
  • Portland Opera Chorus, Tosca, AGMA chorus
  • Contessa, Le Nozze di Figaro, Seattle Opera Previews
  • Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Portland Opera Previews
  • Portland Opera Chorus, Carmina Burana/I Pagliacci, AGMA alternate
  • Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro, Portland Opera Previews
  • Resident Artist of Portland Opera, Pamina/Second Lady, Die Zauberflöte education tour

OTHER STRAIGHT & MUSICAL THEATRE ROLES PERFORMED

Winnifred, Once Upon a Mattress; Echo, Eleemosynary; Bianca, Taming of the Shrew;                   Gooch, Auntie Mame; Mrs. Higgins, Pygmalion; “Pregnant” Woman, Lysistrata