Lisa van der Ploeg

OPERA

Dorabella Cosi fan tutte University of the Pacific 2007
Katisha The Mikado Intermountain Opera 2006
Nenahu Poia (Arthur Nevin) Great Falls Symphony 2005
Juno Semele Pocket Opera 2005
Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana Townsend Opera 2004
Julia Bardos (David Evan Jones) Seoul, Korea  2004
Amneris Aida Intermountain Opera 2003
Fenena Nabucco Utah Festival Opera 2003
Suzuki Madama Butterfly Utah Festival Opera 2003
Mother Doyle The Wedding (Janis Wilson)     Cinnabar Opera 2003
Mother Abbess The Sound of Music Utah Festival Opera 2002
Amastre Xerxes Pocket Opera 2002
Baba  The Medium Cinnabar Opera 2001
Natura La Calisto San Francisco Opera Center 2001
Endimione*  La Calisto San Francisco Opera Center 2001
Cesare Giulio Cesare PocketOpera 2001
Ms. Todd Old Maid and the Thief Intermountain Chamber Opera 2001
Narrator Sweet Betsy from Pike Intermountain Chamber Opera 2001
Ottone Agrippina Pocket Opera 2000
Mum* Albert Herring San Francisco Opera Center 2000
Florence Pike* Albert Herring San Francisco Opera Center 2000
Maddelena Rigoletto Townsend Opera 1999
Orlando Orlando Pocket Opera 1999
The Witch Hansel and Gretel San Francisco Opera Center 1998
Carmen Carmen Merola/Western Opera Theater  1997
Mercedes Carmen Western Opera Theater 1997
Third Lady Magic Flute Chattanooga Opera & Symphony 1996
Tebaldo Don Carlo Kentucky Opera 1996
Maria McTeague Indiana University 1996
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CONCERTS

Beethoven Ninth Symphony Stockton Symphony 2007
Handel Messiah Dayton Philharmonic 2006
Mozart Requiem Masterworks Chorale 2006
Durufle Requiem San Francisco Choral Society 2006
Resphigi/Brahms/Dvorak Il Tramonto/Gypsy songs/ Napa, Music in the Vineyards 2006
Mozart Regina Coeli and Requiem Stockton Chorale 2006
Haydn Theresienne Messe California State University 2006
Mozart Waisenhaus Messe Masterworks Chorale 2006
Dvorak Stabat Mater Oakland East Bay Symphony 2006
Corigliano Fern Hill Stockton Chorale 2005
Elgar Dream of Gerontius University of the Pacific 2005
Mozart Coronation Mass Sacramento Choral Society 2004
Beethoven  Ninth Symphony  Modesto Symphony 2003
Beethoven  Ninth Symphony University of the Pacific  2003
Bach B-Minor Mass Sonoma County Bach Choir 2003
Handel Messiah           University of Santa Cruz  2001
Handel Messiah           Auburn Symphony 2001
Durufle Requiem Berkeley University 2000
Mozart Coronation Mass Masterworks Chorale 1999
Handel Messiah           Indianapolis Symphony 1998
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky Dayton Philharmonic 1998
Mahler Ruckert Lieder Marion Philharmonic 1996
Brahms  Alto Rhapsody Indiana University 1996
Falla Sombrero de tres picos Indianapolis Symphony 1995

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2002 Resident Artist in Education, San Francisco Opera Center
2000 Mary A. Powell Career Grant, Merola Opera Program
1998 Ellen Faull Gordon Competition, Second Prize, 
1998 Florence Bruce Study Grant, Merola Opera Program
1997 Merola Opera Program
1994-96  Metropolitan Opera Auditions Regional Finalist
1994 BM University of the Pacific 1991, MM Indiana University 

TEACHERS AND COACHES

Costanza Cuccaro, Ruth Golden, Warren Jones, Marlena Malas, Regine Crespin, Kathryn Cathcart, Susan Webb, Leonard Hokanson, Gary Arvin, Karen Clark, Allen Cathcart, Myron McPherson

CONDUCTORS       

Raymond Leppard, Scott Bergeson, Michael Morgan, Darryl One, Alessandro Siciliani, Karen Keltner, Ian Robertson, Neal Gittleman, Imre Pallo, Nicole Paiement, Giampaolo Bracali, Nicolas Waldvogel, Thomas Baldner, Robert Bernhardt, Gordon J. Johnson, Barbara Day Turner.

DIRECTORS

Lotfi Mansouri, Leon Major, David Morelock, Russell Henderson, Raymond Hawthorne, James Lucas, Vincent Liotta, John Hoomes, Ted Altschuler, Robert Stivanello, Willene Gunn, Stephanie Sundine.