Beth Lucey (soprano) has worked in music and theater in the Tampa Bay area for the past decade. Beth served on the adjunct voice faculty for Loyola New Orleans and New York University (NYU) where she also received her Undergraduate and Master’s degrees in voice and theater performance, respectively. She has performed extensively as a full lyric soprano, including season appearances with Opera Tampa, under the late, great Maestro Anton Coppola, St. Pete Opera under Maestro Mark Sforzini, Opera Mobile, headed by Arlene Saunders, The Frederick Loewe Theater under the direction of Greg Ganakis, and on tour with SSMA summer music festival in Siena, Italy led by Anastasia Tomasewska-Schepis. Notable roles include Galatea (Acis and Galatea), Nedda (Pagliacci), Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutti), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Marguerite (Faust), Mimi and Musetta (La Boheme) and Carrie (Carousel). Beth has also collaborated on the concert stage with Florida Orchestra's acclaimed cellist, Fred Gratta, and Bronx Opera's director Ben Spierman. She has directed numerous shows at the Red Room and Frederick Loewe theaters in NYC, Rousell Hall, Marquette Theater and the UNO Performing Arts Center in NOLA, and led scenes workshops at both NYU and USF. Beth currently sits as the Artistic Director for South Florida Lyric Opera based out of Tampa, FL.
Lyric tenor Stephen Fee is grateful and blessed to make his debut with Opera for Earth. He was last seen in the Offenbach comedy "A Husband at the Door", in the role of Florestan with South Florida Lyric Opera (SFLO) in his triumphant return to the Opera stage; prior to that he was seen as Alfred in "Die Fledermaus" also with SFLO. A St. Pete native and USF graduate, he has spent the last decade raising a family and growing a financial services business. He has kept his performance chops in shape with notable, musical theater appearances such as Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar", Rutledge in "1776" and Gomez in "Addams Family". You can catch him later this year as the Greek lover Nicias in Saint-Saëns' rarely performed "Phryne". He is grateful to his wife, Amy, for always supporting him and encouraging his creative outlets, and for sharing this passion with him.
Soprano Peilu Ni was born in Beijing, China. She immigrated to Toronto, Canada with her family. She attended the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, recognized her talent and accepted her into the singing program on full scholarship.
Peilu moved to Montréal started school in French, knowing nothing at all the language. Three years of basic musical training brought Peilu into the world of Western classical music, but she found it too difficult to continue her university level studies in French. She then entered Concordia University in Montréal to earn a degree in English Literature, having already begun English studies in China. While studying at Concordia she discovered how much she missed singing.
Peilu moved to Toronto after university, and was accepted by the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music into the Artist Diploma in Solo Voice, where she continued to study voice with Donna Sherman.
In 2003, she auditioned for the role of Princess Mi in Franz Lehàr's The Land of Smiles and was accepted by the Toronto Operetta Theater. Her portrait of Princess Mi was claimed by critics “both charming and affecting”.
She Moved to Florence Italy to pursue opera career in 2014. She then enrolled in the Italian language school, Instituto Europeo Firenze, while taking private singing lessons with Maestro Franco Pagliazzi and singing in churches.
Due to several personal reasons, Peilu stopped singing in 2005 for 10 years. In 2014, she relocated with her family of 4 in Tampa, Florida, taking private lessons with stella Zambali and Melody Aristo. She participated in opera idol contest and master classes at St. Petersburg Opera Company in 2015. she played the role of the aunt in Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and appeared in several concerts and master classes as an emerging artist with the company.
Victoria Hagedorn is a lifelong resident of Pinellas county, attending local schools and graduating from
Clearwater High school. She holds an AA in music from Stephens College, Columbia, MO. She also holds
multiple degrees from USF, Tampa (BA and MA in Music Education, and Ph.D.in Curriculum and
Instruction with specialization in music). Dr. Hagedorn taught Elementary music in Pinellas county
schools for 37 years. Since retirement, she has continued her music activities by accompanying various
school students and programs, performing church music, advocating for Arts Education as a steering
committee member for Arts for Complete Education (ACE), and participating in community events such
as Sing Out Tampa Bay with the Florida Orchestra. She resides in Clearwater with her husband of 50
years.
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