Franco-American soprano, Sarah Hayashi, started her operatic studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore before continuing at the Royal College of Music in London and the Wales International Academy of Voice in Cardiff. During her studies, she sung the roles of the Fire, the Princess, and the Nightingale L’Enfants et les Sortilèges, Miranda in the world premiere of Douglas Buchanan’s Ariel’s Tempest, Miss Ellen Lakmé [Peabody Opera Theatre]; Erste Knabe Die Zauberflöte, Emmie Albert Herring [Royal College of Music]. Other roles include Belinda Dido and Aeneas [Little Patuxent Opera]; Euridice Orphée aux Enfers [Bel Cantanti Opera and Bearwood Opera]; Despina Cosi fan tutte [Seastar Opera]. This past January, Sarah made her role debut as Blonde Abduction from the Seraglio for the Bronx Opera. Sarah was also a finalist in the London Handel Singing Competition, a winner of the RCM Concerto Competition, a winner of the RCM Early Music Competition, and a semi-finalist at the International Cesti Competition.  She was also the recipient of the Maryland Distinguished Scholar of the Arts award, Evergreen House Foundation Scholarship, Charles Brachini Award, and the Josephine Baker Trust. She has also performed extensively as a recitalist in the US, the UK, and France. Recent performances include Blonde Abduction from the Seraglio with the Bronx Opera, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro in Sicily and the Queen of the Night Die Zauberflöte in Germany.

Monica Reinagel, Alto

Monica Reinagel has performed as a soloist with orchestras, opera companies, and choral organizations throughout the United States and Germany, praised by critics for her “voluptuous voice,” “brilliant coloratura,” and “dramatic mastery.” But in the words of the Baltimore Sun, “it is her connection with the audience that remains etched in the memory.”

Recent seasons have included performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Handel Choir of Baltimore, Duke University, the Santa Fe Symphony, and the U.S. Naval Academy, Bach’s B minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion on the Bach in Baltimore Series, as well as Mozart’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Walton’s Facades, and Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning.

Ms. Reinagel’s operatic appearances include over three dozen principal roles, including Penelope in Monteverdi’s Return of Ulysses, Nerone and Ottone in The Coronation of Poppea, Bradamante in Alcina and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus with companies such as the Baltimore Opera, Opera Lafayette, Opera Vivente, American Opera Theater, Münchner Opernwerkstatt, and the Smithsonian Institute. She has also created leading roles for the world premieres of three new American operas—Dan Crozier’s With Blood, with Ink (winner of the Opera America award), Augusta Read-Thomas’ Ligeia, and Robert Ward’s Roman Fever.

Ms Reinagel studied voice and opera at Boston University, the Musikhochschule in Munich, Germany, and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. While living in Germany, she spent two seasons touring with the Bavarian National Radio Chorus, working with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Sir Colin Davis. She is a winner of the Richard Wagner Verein Prize and Scholarship and was a Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions. Monica currently makes her home in the Baltimore/Washington DC area.

YoonShoo Shin, Tenor

Tenor Yoonsoo Shin holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University and Master’s degree from the University of Maryland where he studied under distinguished artists including Giorgio Tozzi and Dominic Cossa. He has received numerous awards from prestigious competitions such as a study grant with the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, a winner of the Liederkranz Foundation for Voice Competition and a national semi-finalist for the Metropolitan National Opera Competition Auditions. Mr. Shin performed the role of the Duke as a young artist with the Merola program at San Francisco Opera. He has gone on to perform at various leading opera companies in the United States including, Toledo Opera, Cleveland Opera, New York City Opera, Seoul Art Center and San Francisco Opera Merola program and has performed roles such as Rodolfo, Tito, Ferrando, Edgardo, Rinuccio, Ismaele, Pinkerton, Duke, Tamino, Des Grieux and Hoffmann.