2009-10 Resident Artists
Resident Artists serve as ambassadors for the company, touching the community through participation in programs for public schools, community centers, libraries and corporate events. In addition to performing supporting roles, covering and sometimes performing principal roles in Pittsburgh Opera's mainstage productions, the Resident Artists gain valuable performance experience through regular Brown Bag concerts and special events, such as the annual Cabaret, and parties hosted by Pittsburgh Opera. They also perform all of the principal and supporting roles in a fully-staged Pittsburgh Opera production featuring the Resident Artists at CAPA Theater.
Click on the Resident Artists' names to see their biographies below:
 Danielle Pastin, soprano
A second-year Resident Artist in 2009-10, soprano Danielle Pastin will sing Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro Student Matinee. Ms. Pastin made her Pittsburgh Opera mainstage debut as Rosasharn in The Grapes of Wrath and sang Mimì in the La bohème Student Matinee.
Having grown up in a Navy family that traveled and lived in many places, Ms. Pastin claims Annapolis, Maryland as her home. She received her Bachelor’s in voice/opera from the University of Maryland in 2002 and has since then been a member of various resident artist programs, including Central City Opera, where she played Lucinda in the world premiere of Henry Mollicone’s opera Gabriel’s Daughter and the Intermezzo Opera Festival Training Program, where she performed Nannetta in Falstaff. At Capital Opera in Harrisburg, PA, she has sung Nedda in Pagliacci and Annina in La Traviata.
Ms. Pastin's awards include Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council regional competition and the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition, as well as the Audience Choice award at the Annapolis Opera Competition She received the Fine Arts Fellowship award from Central City Opera and the Enrico Aloi Bronze Medallion of the Rosa Ponselle Foundation.
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