Little Red Riding Hood

Brian J. Alvarado’s ‘liquid baritone of great charm,’ ‘precise patter elocution,’ and ‘highly attractive legato’ (Parterre Box) has featured recently as both Falke in La Chauve-Souris and the Baritone in The Four Note Opera (Festival d’art vocal de Montréal; Orchestre Classique de Montréal), Silvio in Pagliacci (New Rochelle Opera), Angelotti in Tosca (Opera Vermont), Eugene Johnson in Blind Injustice (Opera Theatre of the Rockies), Tom in Un ballo in maschera (Opera Project Columbus), and Mountararat in Iolanthe and Simone/Filiberto in Gianni Schicchi/Il Signor Bruschino (Bronx Opera). He has portrayed an ‘appropriately sardonic Leporello' (Indie Opera Podcast) with Bronx Opera, Long Island Lyric Opera, Lighthouse Opera, and Amore Opera. Other roles include Papageno and Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte), Dandini (La cenerentola), Schaunard (La bohéme), Betto (Gianni Schicchi), Frank (Die Fledermaus), Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette), and the title roles in Venus and Adonis, The Sorcerer, and Sweeney Todd. Solo concert work includes Handel's Messiah, Bach’s BWV 147, Keiser's Markuspassion, Haydn’s Nicolaimesse, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore and Missa Brevis in G Major, Schubert's Mass in G, and Gounod’s St. Cecilia Mass. The Bronx native has appeared chorally at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Sawdust, among many others. He is excited to return to Prelude Opera, where he has previously appeared as The Wolf/Woodsman in Little Red Riding Hood, and Osmin in The Billy Goats Gruff.

Noted for her lyrical pathos and comedic flair, mezzo-soprano Brittany Fowler has been praised by the New York Times for her “dynamically fluid characterization”. Recent professional engagements include Ronnie in the American Opera Project’s workshop of Pete Wyer’s Ga Sho, Dorothy Hindman’s The Pillowbook with Fresh Squeezed Opera, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostra in Pennsylvania, and First Lover in a workshop of Kate Soper’s The Romance of the Rose with the Wet Ink Ensemble. Other operatic roles include Larina (Eugene Onegin), Ottavia (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Meg (Little Women), The Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and La Musica (L’Orfeo). She received her BA in Music and Italian Studies from Wesleyan University; she has been Young Artist with the Boston Early Music Festival and Opera North as well as pursued extended studies at the University of Bologna in Italy. 

Versatile mezzo-soprano Sara Henry has charmed audiences around the world, singing leading and supporting roles in more than 50 different operas. Highlights of her career have included the roles of Semiramide (Semiramide), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice) Diana (La Calisto), Adalgisa (Norma), and Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), as well as a host of Handelian heroes, including the title roles in Xerxes, Ariodante, and Giulio Cesare. In addition to singing, she is known for writing and producing witty English language adaptations of classic operatic repertoire. This March, she will appear in the title role of Bizet's Carmen with Palisades Opera.

Sarah Ziegler Blair is a musical theater/opera performer and also a musical theater writer. An advanced member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Sarah is the co-lyricist and co-librettist of Just Between the All of Us, a choose-your-own-adventure musical commissioned by Pittsburgh CLO. The show won the Reva Shiner Comedy Award in 2020 and will have a production at Bloomington Playwright’s Project in December of 2021. Another musical of Sarah’s, The Brontës, written with composer Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed and co-book writer Katie Palmer, is currently undergoing a year-long workshop (which will culminate in a production) at the University of East London. Past productions include In Between (now available for licensing), Stage Fright (Prospect Theater Company’s Musical Theater Lab), and Dustin Gavins P.I. (UC Irvine’s 4@15 production). Sarah’s children’s album of her original tunes (Musical Muffins: Tunes for Babies and Big Kids) is in the works.Sarah has a Masters in Musical Theater performance from The Boston Conservatory. Her favorite past roles include Jane in Leave it to Jane (Musicals Tonight!), Laurey in Oklahoma!(Tent Theatre, MO), ensemble and Guenevere understudy in Camelot (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), Jane in Pirates! (Huntington Theatre), and Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (Millbrook Playhouse). Most of all, Sarah loves spending her time writing and performing silly songs with her toddler, Arlo. sarahzieglerblair.com