Daveda Karanas, a Louisiana native, is a second-year Adler Fellow and made her Company debut in Boris Godunov this season. She sang the role of Tisbe in the 2007 production of La Cenerentola with the Merola Opera Program. Karanas made her professional debut in 2006 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron. The mezzo-soprano’s recent credits include Ericlea (Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria) with Chicago Opera Theater; Lady with a Hat Box (Argento’s Postcard from Morocco) and The Princess (Suor Angelica) with Boston University Opera Institute; Marchesa Melibea (Il Viaggio a Reims) with Music Academy of the West; Mère Marie (Dialogues des Carmélites), Judith (Bluebeard’s Castle), Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) with Arizona State University; and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Mme. Pernelle (Mechem’s Tartuffe), and Baba (The Medium) with Southeastern Louisiana University. Karanas’s awards include the grand prize in the Arizona Opera League competition and the Encouragement Award at the Marilyn Horne Foundation competition. She is a former international semi-finalist in the Neue Stimmen competition and most recently a grand prize winner at the 2008 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. She holds degrees from Arizona State University and Southeastern Louisiana University.