I maintain a diverse career as an operatic soprano, actor, academic and arts administrator.
Favorite roles: Adele in Die Fledermaus, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Musetta in La bohème, Lily in The Secret Garden, Miss Andrew in Mary Poppins, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro.
Soloist work: Handel’s Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach's Weinachts Oratorium, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasie and Symphony No. 9, Chanukah Oratorio (world premiere)
Organizations I have worked with include: Walton Arts Center, VOCE NWA, Delaware Valley Opera Theater, Opera Viva (Liverpool UK), Tactus (OKC), Cincinnati Opera Education, The Cape Symphony (MA), Opera for the Young, Queen City Chamber Opera, the Carnegie Theatre of KY, Chicago Verismo Opera, Chicago Gilbert & Sullivan, Middlebury German for Singers, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, Bay View Music Festival, Orchestra of Northern New York (ONNY), the Rockford Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Knox Music Series (Cincinnati), Vocal Arts Ensemble (Cincinnati), Constella Festival
Academic Institutions Include: University of Arkansas, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Edge Hill University (UK), St. Lawrence University, Northern Kentucky University, Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam
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Praise
"Stinson (Stein) was hilarious as the aging prima donna...She produced a bell-like tone that soared...and her coloratura was agile and clean...During the trio finale, (she) peeked through the curtain and burst from the stage door with a couple of arresting high Fs" ~musicincincinnati.com
"A remarkable voice."
-NCPR
“Samantha...served up Yum-Yum in a yummy style. The house was quiet, perfectly attentive to her every note.”
- Hyde Park (IL) Herald
"a rounded, commanding top..."
-Broadway in Chicago
As Susanna in Bay View Music Festival’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro,
Samantha is “a delicate blend of mischievous scheming, loving sincerity and a magnificent voice.”
- Petosky (MI) News Review