Sarah Baumgarten (Rebecca Kaplan) is very excited to be working with composer Bradley Detrick and Garden State Opera on The Yellow Star. Recent roles include Musetta (La Bohème), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Anne Page (Merry Wives of Windsor), Noemie (Cendrillon) and Papagena (The Magic Flute).  Upcoming engagements include “No One is Alone: The Jewish Tradition on Broadway,” a self-produced concert at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. As Music Collaborator and Education Director of the Jüdische Kulturbund Project, Sarah has performed at the Library of Congress, JMM, Capitol Hill, Andy’s Summer Playhouse and soon, the Leo Baeck Institute.

Charlotte Detrick (Mrs. Jacobsen), as company member of the New York City Opera, sang in over fifteen different productions, toured Japan, and was featured in the Emmy award-winning “Live from Lincoln Center” telecast of Madama Butterfly. Recent credits include Francesca in Rachmaninoff’s Francesca da Rimini and Regina in Mathis der Maler with Garden State Opera, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Marguerite in Faust with Hudson Opera Theatre, as well as the title role in Countess Maritza and Nadina in The Chocolate Soldier with the Liederkranz Opera Theatre. Past credits include Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Nedda in Pagliacci, and Clorinda in La Cenerentola at the Belleayre Festival.

William Hurwitz (Resistance Worker/German Navy Officer) graduated in 2017 from The Boston Conservatory’s undergraduate voice program, summa cum laude. While in Boston, he sang with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in numerous concerts with the BSO and Boston Pops. He is bass section leader in the Schola Cantorum at Our Lady of Victory, and can be heard during the High Holy Days at Da’at Elohim. Recent theatrical roles include El Gallo in The Fantasticks at The Covey Center for The Arts, Dr. Cajus in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor with Boston Conservatory Opera, and Guglielmo in an in-concert rendering of Così fan tutte at OPERA America.

Ginger Inabinet (Hannah Kaplan) received her Master of Music degree at the New England Conservatory. As part of the Extra Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, she has performed in productions of Boris Godunov, Parsifal, Les Troyens, and Nabucco.  Ms. Inabinet has also performed in the Supplemental Chorus at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Associate Chorus of New York City Opera. A strong advocate for contemporary music, she recorded premieres of multimedia productions with New York Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, with music by composer and poet Georgia Shreeve. In addition to her work as a singer, she is a professional storyteller and has operated a wholesale baking business.

Daniel Kamalić  (Resistance Worker/Gestapo Officer) is the winner of the 2014 American Prize Oratorio Award, lyric-dramatic tenor has been praised for his “big, stunning voice” (Chris Buchanan, Berkshire Fine Arts) with “exciting, tremendous force and a burnished tonal quality” (Larry Kellum, Town Times). For the 2017-18 season, Mr. Kamalić is excited to make his Israeli debut as Harlekin and Soldat inThe Emperor of Atlantis with the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In addition, he returns to Five College Opera in the title role of The Scarlet Professor, and makes soloist debuts with Miami Lyric Opera and the Sanibel Music Festival in Florida with Opera Theater of Connecticut.

Stephen Steffens (Carl Jensen) has been praised for having a “sweet yet heroic sound”. His 2018 credits include: Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio; Leandro in La Cifra; and Captain Richard Warrington in Naughty Marietta. Stephen recently made his Long Island Opera debut singing Camille in The Merry Widow and his Maryland Lyric Opera debut singing Kaspar in their December 2016 production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. Stephen was a member of the 2015 Fargo-Moorhead Opera Young Artist Program. In 2014 he made his Canadian opera debut singing Lysander in Brittens’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Aimée-Rose Willett (Brigitte Jacobsen) Praised for her “easy high notes” and “crystal tone”, Aimée-Rose Willett returned to the Worcester Schubertiade stage this past season as the Soprano Soloist for the company’s Summer Aria Series. Miss Willett’s other recent performances include Peep-Bo/Yum-Yum cover The Mikado (Opera Providence) and Soprano Ensemble Gods and Monsters Concert (Berkshire Opera Festival). As a member of the acclaimed Franco-American Vocal Academy (FAVA), she made her European debut in 2015 performing the complete combined roles of La Pastourelle/La Chauve-Souris in Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortilèges. Miss Willett returned to FAVA in 2016 where she performed the title role of Bastienne in W.A. Mozart’s opera “Bastien und Bastienne”.