Lyric Opera 2022-2023, Issue 7, Factotum

19 | Lyric Opera of Chicago Orlando. He has appeared at Houston Grand Opera (Ríolobo/ Florencia en el Amazonas ), Washington National Opera (Lieutenant Gordon/ Silent Night ), and the Bayerische Staatsoper (Larkens/ La fanciulla del West ). MELODY BETTS | CHANTEL Previously at Lyric: Grandma and Fruma Sarah/ Fiddler on the Roof (2022/23). Betts has appeared on Broadway in Waitress and with a national tour of The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). Her numerous regional credits include The Rain Lady in Witness Uganda/Invisible Thread (2012-2015), The Ghost of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Rep, 2010-2012), Sylvia in All Shook Up (Marriott Theatre), and The Courtesan in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s production of A Comedy Of Errors . She appeared in the Jeff Award-winning production of Ragtime as Sarah’s Friend. Television credits include Chicago Code , Chicago PD , Chicago Fire , HBOMax’s Southside , Power on STARZ, and Jesus Christ Superstar Live on NBC. NISSI SHALOME | CECE Lyric debut Born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago, Shalome holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Western Illinois University. Her most recent credits include Martha/Emily in A Christmas Carol at Drury Lane Theatre, swing/ensemble roles in the national tour of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and in Dreamgirls at the Paramount. SYMONE HARCUM | SANDRA Lyric debut The soprano began the season as a Company Artist at Minnesota Opera, where she made a role debut as Almirena/ Rinaldo and will also debut Donna Anna/ Don Giovanni . Last season, she debuted with the company as Léontine/ The Anonymous Lover and Micaëla/ Carmen and at Virginia Opera as La Contessa/ Le nozze di Figaro . This past summer Harcum debuted at The Glimmerglass Festival in the role of Micaëla/ Carmen . In the summer of 2021, she was an apprentice artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, where she sang Mascha/ Queen of Spades . As a member of The Herndon Foundation Emerging Artist Program at Virginia Opera in 2019/20, she sang the role of Clorinda/ La Cenerentola and covered the title role and sang The High Priestess/ Aïda . In the fall of 2020, she was a nalist in both the Tri-Cities Opera Competition and the New York International Opera + Premiere Opera Vocal Competition. Most recently, Harcum was named the rst place winner of the 2021 Opera Ithaca Competition. Other notable roles and achievements include being 2018’s rst place winner of both the National Society of Arts and Letters-DC Dorothy Lincoln Smith Voice Competition and the Sylvia Green Voice Competition. LUNGA ERIC HALLAM | BOOTLEG JOE Previously at Lyric: 3 roles since 2021/22, most recently First Courtier/ Le comte Ory (2022/23) and Adult Nathan/ Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021/22). A third-year Ryan Opera Center tenor, Hallam is from Khayelitsha, South Africa. He received his diploma and postgraduate (with honors) degrees in music training from the University of Cape Town College of Music. Last season, he sang in Sunday in the Park with Lyric’s Rising Stars and later this season he will appear at Lyric in Proximity . Recent engagements include Giudice/ Un ballo in maschera with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Remendado/ Carmen with Chicago Opera Theater. Roles as a Young Artist at Cape Town Opera include Tebaldo/ I Capuleti e i Montecchi , Edgardo/ Lucia di Lammermoor , Ernesto/ Don Pasquale , and Roberto/ Maria Stuarda , as well as Ramiro/ La Cenerentola at Cape Town Conservatory. He was featured as part of the 2017 Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe. Hallam competed as a semi nalist in the 2019 Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition and the 2019 Voice of South Africa International Singing Competition. Chicago appearances include two performances for the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series, with Joyce DiDonato and Lawrence Brownlee. Lunga Eric Hallam is sponsored by Ms. Gay K. Stanek, Rick & Lindsay Shepro, and The Ford, Mages, and Boykins Families. TERRENCE CHIN-LOY | CHARLIE Lyric debut This season, the American tenor will perform Tamino/ Die Zauber öte with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan as well as at Arizona Opera, Don José/ Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center, and Acis/ Acis and Galatea with Eugene Opera. In concert, he joins the North Carolina Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem and the Boise Philharmonic for a performance of Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes . Chin-Loy opened last season at the Metropolitan Opera in Fire Shut Up in My Bones and returned to Arizona Opera for his second and nal season as a Marion Roose Pullin Resident Artist, where he performed Henrik Egerman/ A Little Night Music and Ferrando/ Così fan tutte . At Boston Lyric Opera, he sang Benny Paret Jr./ Champion . The tenor performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall. In the 2020/21 Season, Chin-Loy sang a series of concerts with Arizona Opera as a member of the Studio and joined the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in a piece by Daniel Bernard Roumain. He also appeared in William Grant Still's Highway 1 as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Chin-Loy was a Semi nalist in the 2018 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. ADAM RICHARDSON | LEEROY Lyric debut This season, the baritone will make his company debut with Catapult Opera as Yoshio in Yukio Mishima’s Hanjo , which he’ll reprise at Teatro Sociale di Trento, Italy, in the spring. Richardson also makes a house debut with Opera Omaha as the title role in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X , and returns to the role of John Mack at Pittsburgh Opera in We Shall Not Be Moved , which he originated in 2017. Last season, Richardson performed in Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater