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:

Lindsay Ammann, mezzo-soprano
Noah Baetge, tenor
Katherine Drago, mezzo-soprano
James Flora, tenor

Dan Kempson, baritone
Shannon Kessler Dooley, soprano
Liam Moran, bass
Danielle Pastin, soprano

Liam Moran, bass

Liam Moran is a third-year Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera in 2009-10. He is slated to sing the roles of Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia, Zuniga in Carmen and Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro.

In the 2008-09 season, he sang The Old Hebrew in Samson & Dalila, the title role in Don Pasquale and Colline in La bohème. In 2007-08, he appeared as The Bonze in Madama Butterfly, appearing subsequently as Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love Behind the Curtain, the Immigration Officer in Flight, the King in Aida and Capellio in The Capulets & the Montagues Student Matinee.

In summer 2008, he returned to Wolf Trap Opera for Melisso in Alcina, Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos, and excerpts from Fidelio. His previous roles there include Zuniga in Carmen, the Speaker in The Magic Flute and Siroco in L’étoile. He has also performed with Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Glimmerglass Opera, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and Opera Omaha.

Mr. Moran's concert work ranges from Monteverdi to Penderecki and he has been featured with the National Symphony, Washington Concert Opera, the Palm Beach Symphony, the New World Symphony’s “Concerts in Context” series, the Los Angeles Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and several recital series.

A prize winner in the Florida Grand Opera Competition and Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions/New England region, Mr. Moran completed his studies at McGill University in Montreal and the Yale School of Music.

Pittsburgh Opera 2009-10 Resident Artists Biographies PDF