Opera On Tour
Dates Coming Soon
Winter 2027
Opera on Tour: Bringing Opera to Your Neighborhood
Each year, Boston Lyric Opera hits the road with a lively, one-hour performance designed to spark curiosity and creativity in young audiences. Led by professional singers, a pianist, and a narrator, this interactive event gets kids on their feet as they explore the thrill of opera through music, storytelling, and movement.
Opera on Tour 2027: Coming Soon
Artist Classroom Visits are used to introduce opera to students engaging in our year-long Create Your Own Opera Partnership. Available January and February 2027.
Want to bring Opera on Tour to your classroom, library, museum, or event space?
Alexandra Henderson | Marie
Alexandra Henderson is looking forward to making her Boston Lyric Opera debut this season as Marie in Opera on Tour: Daughter of the Regiment and in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in BLO’s collaboration with Vivo Performing Arts. In the operatic canon, Henderson has recently been seen in leading roles such as Adina, The Elixir of Love, Opera Neo; and Governess, The Turn of the Screw, Opera Roanoke. An avid performer of art song repertoire, Henderson is also a featured recitalist with the Federation of the Art Song alongside her collaborator Sepehr Davallou. Henderson has performed as the soprano soloist in concert works such as Carmina Burana with the Rivers Symphony Orchestra and Handel’s Messiah with the Cathedral of All Saints. In the 2026 season, Henderson looks forward to her residency as a Soprano Fellow with the Tanglewood Music Festival and Cincinnati Song Initiative. She is honored to have been a winner of the Boston District of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition, as well as first prize in the John Alexander National Vocal Competition. Henderson holds a Master’s degree in vocal performance from New England Conservatory, where she received the Douglas Smith Scholarship for Voice.
Laura Santamaria | Marie
Laura Santamaria (she/her) is a Colombian-American soprano from West Palm Beach, FL. She is a recipient of the Richard Gaddes Career Award from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis—for the second consecutive year—and was named a Florida District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Santamaria has performed in numerous masterclasses as part of Boston Lyric Opera and Boston Conservatory’s “Opera Innovators” series, working with artists such as Karen Slack, David Angus, Lawrence Brownlee, Shawn Marie Jeffery, and Christine Goerke. In 2025, Santamaria returned to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, where she performed the role of Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and covered Norina in Don Pasquale. In April, she made her role debut as Fiordiligi in Boston Conservatory’s production of Così fan tutte. This August, she joins Ravinia’s prestigious Steans Institute as a fellow, where she will appear in Schubert on the Road, a curated recital led by Graham Johnson. Santamaria recently earned her Master of Music in opera performance from Boston Conservatory, studying under Dr. Rebecca Folsom. A passionate advocate for her Latin American heritage, she enjoys performing art songs by composers such as Jaime León, María Grever, and Alberto Ginastera.
Morgan Mastrangelo | Tonio
Tenor Morgan Mastrangelo is a returning Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, where their credits include Enoch (cover), Carousel; Marzio (cover), Mitridate; Hades (cover, performed), Eurydice and Don Ramiro (cover) in La Cenerentola. Regional credits include Hades, Eurydice, Opera Grand Rapids; Count Almaviva, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Wichita Grand Opera; Edemondo (cover) in the modern premiere of Anna di Resburgo, Teatro Nuovo; Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players; and Tobias, Sweeney Todd, Opera Saratoga. Concert credits include their debut as The Narrator in Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Boston Baroque; the tenor solos in Bach’s BWV 5, 78, and 94, 148, and 181 with Emmanuel Music in Boston; Messiah, Hudson Valley Philharmonic; Petit messe solenelle, Opera Saratoga; Carmina Burana, Carnegie Hall; and 2nd place in the 2025 American National Oratorio Competition and the 2024 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition. An avid interpreter of cross-genre projects and contemporary music, Mastrangelo recently appeared with Contemporaneous in the world-premiere chamber-rock opera The Precipice, and at Lincoln Center as Michael in Bryce McClendon’s musical play The Smallest Sound, in the Smallest Space, a role which they originated. They studied at Northwestern University and New England Conseratory.
Patrick Starke | Tonio
Patrick Starke is a Boston-based tenor. He is thrilled to sing the roles of Tonio and the Widow Birkenfeld in Boston Lyric Opera’s Opera on Tour: Daughter of the Regiment. Recent roles include Anthony in Sweeney Todd, Opera Idaho; Prologue/Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Opera Roanoke; Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance, Central City Opera; Le Prince Charmant in Viardot’s Cendrillon, Knoxville Opera; Don José in Le Tragédie de Carmen, Boston Opera Collaborative; Count Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Idaho; Alfredo (cover) in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, Janiec Opera Company). Dedicated to educational outreach and community engagement, Starke has worked as a Teaching Artist with Cedar Rapids Opera and participated in school tours with Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Idaho. He has previously worked with Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist, Cedar Rapids Opera as a Smith Young Artist, and Opera Idaho as an Emerging Artist. He earned a Master of Music degree in voice performance from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance and music education from Ithaca College.
David J Castillo | Sulpice
David J. Castillo* (Narrator/Sulpice) is an actor and multi-disciplinary artist in Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA. Regional credits include Primary Trust, SpeakEasy Stage Company; Fat Ham, Alliance Theatre and Huntington Theatre; Edward II, Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Baltimore, New Rep; and The T Party, Company One. Film and TV credits include Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; The Rookie (ABC); True Story with Ed & Randall (Peacock); Mr. Mayor (NBC); and The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+). Voice credits include Gasolina (Audible). David holds a BFA in acting from Boston University.
Sepehr Davallou | Pianist
Sepehr Davallou is a versatile musician, pianist, vocal coach, and opera repetiteur based in the Boston area. He was among the finalists at the Federation of The Art Song Fellowship and the First Barbad International Piano Awards, and his accolades include The Polonsky Foundation Fellowship and The National Youth Music Festival. He has performed at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition with Alexandra Henderson, served as assistant music director for NEMPAC’S Orfeo, served as music director / coach for multiple outreach operas at New England Conservatory, and worked as a pianist on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Miami Music Festival; Die Fledermaus and Die Zauberflöte, NEC and Maryland Opera Studio. Recently, he was the principal harpsichord and staging pianist NEC’s production of L’incoronazione di Poppea. He is a frequently sought-after coach and pianist in the Boston area. Davallou has attended festivals including Aspen Music Festival, Dandelion Opera Institute, and The Collaborative Pianist Institute, where he had the privilege to work with renowned artists such as Martin Katz, Warren Jones, and Kathy Kelly. He currently works as a pianist for Boston Ballet, New England Conservatory, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston City Singers, and has been on Brookline Music School’s piano faculty since 2023.
Patricia Au | Pianist
Known for her vivacious energy, Dr. Patricia Au is versatile as a collaborative pianist, educator, and music director. She has held positions at New England Conservatory and Boston University Tanglewood Institute, as well as conducting masterclasses at Bucknell University and New World School of the Arts. As music director, she has led productions at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, OperaHub, and Boston Opera Collaborative. A frequent interpreter of contemporary music, she has workshopped with living composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina and John Harbison. For the last ten seasons, Dr. Au has served as Resident Teaching Artist and Education Pianist with Boston Lyric Opera, where she has a passion for introducing young people to opera as a storytelling art. She is also the Assistant Program Director for the Vocal Summer Intensive at Walnut Hill School of the Arts. Dr. Au received her DMA in collaborative piano from New England Conservatory of Music and in January 2023, she was appointed Assistant Professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Alexandra Dietrich | Stage Director
Alexandra Dietrich, originally from Freeport, Maine, is a Puerto Rican American stage director. At Boston Lyric Opera, Ms. Dietrich was the Intimacy Director for The Seasons, as well as the Assistant Stage Director for Ride of the Valkyries!, Macbeth, Mitridate, and The Seasons. Notable works include directing Glory Denied at Opera Company of Middlebury, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Little Women, The Broadway Musical at Marblehead Little Theatre, The Little Prince at both the Longy School of Music of Bard and NEMPAC Opera, and La tragédie de Carmen at Boston Opera Collaborative. Recently, she was Assistant Director to Loretta Greco for The Light in the Piazza at The Huntington, and to James Robinson for Awakenings at Odyssey Opera. She served on the voice faculty at the University of Southern Maine Osher School of Music as an Artist Faculty in Voice from 2019-2025. With the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ms. Dietrich was an Associate Artistic Producer on the GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
Elena Ring | Tour Manager
Elena Ring is a freelance stage manager in the Greater Boston area. They hold a BFA in stage and production management from Emerson College. Ring joins Boston Lyric Opera for Opera on Tour: Daughter of the Regiment, marking their first collaboration with the company. Previously, Ring served as the Company Manager for two seasons at Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) in Lowell, MA. Stage management production credits at MRT include Dishwasher Dreams, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Misery, and Ring of Fire: the Music of Johnny Cash. Ring’s work spans theatrical and touring productions, as well as special events. Additional experience includes supporting the management teams for the annual fundraising gala and donor-facing events at Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater.