Stephanie Kruskol Batchelder, soprano

Stephanie Kruskol is a soprano based in the greater Washington, D.C. area. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Voice Performance from The Peabody Conservatory. Past performances with Bach in Baltimore include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio as well as Haydn’s Paukenmesse. Most recently, she was the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival. Other solo engagements include Handel’s Messiah,Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. She has been involved in several world premieres, including premiering the role of Roxy in Do Not Disturb, a new comic opera by Sean Pflueger and Laura Fuentes which debuted at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival, and was the featured soprano soloist in Jerry Ascione’s piece entitled One Hundred Eighty-Seven with the New England Wind Symphony. On the operatic stage, she has performed the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Estates Theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. Other operatic roles include Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Flora in The Turn of the Screw, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Despina in Così fan tutte.

Hailed by The Baltimore Sun for his “eloquent phrasing” and “persuasive acting,” tenor Michael Dodge is a singer of art song, oratorio, and opera based in Baltimore. He can be seen frequently on the opera and concert stages throughout Baltimore and Washington D.C. collaborating with groups such as Lyric Opera Baltimore, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Baltimore Concert Opera, Charm City Baroque, Bel Cantanti Opera, the Great Noise Ensemble, and more.

Recent appearances include the tenor soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Concert Artists of Baltimore, Governer and Vanderdendur in Candide (Bernstein) with the Manchester Choral Society, soloist in Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Charm City Baroque, Mozart in Mozart in Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov) with Bel Cantanti Opera, Obadiah in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with The Bassi Brugnatelli Symposium in Robbiate, Italy, and as the tenor soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass as a resident artist with the New Hampshire Music Festival.

This season, Mr. Dodge makes his debut with Opera Northwest where he will sing the roles of Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

As a scholar of musicology and theory, he has presented research papers on vocal music at conferences in the United States and abroad.