Ms. Schnitzer is fast becoming a sought-after performer of opera, oratorio and art song. She completed the PORTopera Emerging Artist’s program in Maine this summer, where she covered Juliette in Romeo et Juliette and sang Madame Pompous in Too Many Sopranos. Before PORTopera, her most recent roles were Dido in Dido and Aeneas, and Lola in Gallantry, both with the Weston OperaFest. In the winter of 2007 she sang both the Mother and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel with the Boston Opera Collaborative. Prior to that, she sang two title roles: The Merry Widow at the Quisisana Music Festival and Suor Angelica (cover) with Mass Theatrica. Other roles performed include Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia ( with the Commonwealth Opera Company and with the Janiec Opera Company/Brevard Music Center), Noemie in Cendrillon and First Lady in The Magic Flute, both at the New England Conservatory. Highlights of her oratorio solo and art song career include the Mahler Rückertlieder with the Philharmonic Society of Arlington, Schubert ‘s Mass in G and the Mozart Vespers K. 321, both with the Concert Singers of Lynn, Handel’s Messiah with Masterworks Chorale, and the Bach B minor mass with the Belmont Orchestra. In the summer of 2007, Ms. Schnitzer was a young artist at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in England, and a Bel Canto Apprentice Artist with the Caramoor International Music Festival in New York. She has attended many other summer opera programs including the Quisisana Festival in 2006, the Brevard Music Center in 2005, The Atlantic Coast Opera Festival in 2004, and the Florence Voice Seminar in Italy in 2003. No stranger to vocal competitions, Ms. Schnitzer won first place in the Philharmonic Society of Arlington Young Artist Competition in April 2007. In 2006, she was a Boston District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition, and second place winner of the Peter Elvins Vocal Competition in Belmont, MA. She was a finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition in 2005, and won first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Boston, in both 2004 and 2005. Exciting upcoming engagements include the role of Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with the Boston Opera Collaborative in October, a recital of art song with mezzo-soprano Megan Roth in New York in November, the title role in Alcina with BOC in February, and the soprano solos in Mendelssohn’s St. Paul with the Braintree Choral Society in May.

Ms. Schnitzer is a native of Westchester, NY. She received her MM in Voice Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2005 and her BM in Voice Performance from UMASS Amherst in 2003. She currently studies privately with Penelope Bitzas.