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:
 Shannon Kessler Dooley, soprano
Shannon Kessler Dooley is a first-year Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera and will sing Nannetta in Falstaff, Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, Frasquita in Carmen and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro Student Matinee. Her most recent operatic credits include Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Clorinda in La Cenerentola with Utah Opera. Other operatic credits include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Beth in Little Women and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
Concert credits include soprano solos in The Messiah and Peer Gynt with Utah Symphony and the Brahms Requiem solo with her undergraduate alumni, Webster University Symphony, in St. Louis. She was the Utah District winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council Competition and received an Encouragement Award at the Regional level. Ms. Kessler Dooley is an avid recitalist, with French repertoire closest to her heart. The highlight of her recital career was a performance on Live from the St. Louis Botanical Gardens 99.1 with selections from Debussy’s Ariettes Oubliées, live on the radio.
Mrs. Kessler Dooley’s education includes two Master’s degrees from New England Conservatory of Music, and participating in apprentice programs at The Santa Fe Opera, Utah Opera, Tulsa Opera and Ash Lawn Opera Festival.
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