Rebecca Luttio '04
Mezzo Soprano
A professionally trained dancer and native of Seattle, Washington, Rebecca Luttio made her professional debut in the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s the Nutcracker at the age of nine years old. Since then, Ms. Luttio studied dance, musical theatre and opera at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Ms. Luttio has sung in numerous young artist programs both domestic and abroad, including, Operafestival di Roma, American Austrian Mozart Academy, Oberlin in Italy and most recently the prestigious young artist program Opera North in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Past opera roles include "Despina" in CosiFanTutte, the "Widow" in TheBoor, “Rosa Gonzales" in SummerandSmoke, "Clori" in L'Egisto and “Marcellina” from LeNozzediFigaro. Since the first year of her graduate vocal studies at New England Conservatory, Ms. Luttio has been cast in leading roles in every main-stage opera, and will end her last semester singing “Dinah” in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti this February. She studies with Chair, Mark St. Laurent of New England Conservatory. Distinctions include merit vocal and dance scholarships from St. Olaf College, American Musical and Dramatic Academy and New England Conservatory for a Masters in vocal performance. Ms. Luttio is also a two-time recipient of the SOS-Mount Scholarship from the Society of Singers.
As a versatile actress, Ms. Luttio recently made her professional theatre debut at the American Repertory Theatre of Cambridge, as “Simonetta” in the world premiere of Stephen Greenblatt and Charles Mee’s Cardenio.
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Laura Wilde
Indiana University
Mezzo-Soprano Laura Wilde, from Watertown, SD, is in the third year of her master’s degree at Indiana University, where she studies with Costanza Cuccaro. Wilde received a Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College, where she studied with Janis Hardy and Mark Calkins. While at Indiana University, she performed the roles of Jo in Adamo’s Little Women, Isabella in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, and Prince Charming in Massenet’s Cendrillon. While attending St. Olaf, she performed the title role in Carmen, Ramiro in La Finta Giardiniera, and Lady Gertrude/Katisha in An Evening with the Mikado. She also created the role of Sarah in The Binding of Isaac, a BMI award-winning chamber opera by Matthew Peterson. In 2008, Wilde performed the role of Mrs. Ott in Susannah at the Chautauqua summer voice program. During her two summers with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, she covered the roles of Cherubino in The Ghosts of Versailles and Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro. This past summer at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis she also performed the role of Mrs. Segstrom in Isaac Mizrahi’s production of A Little Night Music and will be returning for the 2011 season to sing the role of Omar in The Death of Klinghoffer. Wilde was a 2010 Metropolitan Opera Competition semi-finalist.
With an agile voice that has been likened to “warm steel,” Minnesotan soprano Evelyn Nelson is a versatile and creative performer whose experience and abilities span from Bach to Broadway. She most recently sang Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Sugar Creek Symphony and Song Festival, and looks forward to singing the role of Adele in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with Indiana University Opera Theater in November 2010. Other roles to her credit include the title role in Massanet’s Manon, Bastienne in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne, Miss Silverpeal in The Impresario, and Cinderella in Sondheim’s Into the Woods. Ms. Nelson has been a soloist with the Saint Olaf Orchestra, the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra, and the Bach Cantata Project at the Blanton Art Museum in Austin, Texas. She has been a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a finalist or winner in several other competitions, including the Dallas Opera Guild and the Schubert Club Contest in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Ms. Nelson’s educational and artistic training is diverse, and has strongly emphasized foreign language study. She holds degrees from Saint Olaf College and The University of Texas, and has also spent significant lengths of time both studying and performing in Germany, Italy, and Norway. She is a student of Costanza Cuccaro at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she is pursuing a Performance Diploma. 
Evelyn Nelson
University of Texas
