Mezzo-soprano and music educator Alyssa Burdick has been featured as a soloist with Mankato Symphony Orchestra (Handel), Minnesota Orchestra (Bernstein), and Bach Society of Minnesota (Handel). This season Alyssa is thrilled to join Journey North Opera Company in the Minnesota premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s haunting 2018 opera, Proving Up. Recent solo recital programs include Classic Christmas with OOPS MN and Dominick Argento’s striking song cycle, From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Alyssa has performed principal opera roles with An Opera Theater (AOT), G&S Very Light Opera Company, Garden of Song Opera, and San Francisco Pocket Opera. Alyssa also sings with the Minnesota Chorale and appears frequently in chamber ensembles with the Bach Society of Minnesota. She lives in Plymouth, MN, where she teaches private lessons, directs a community men’s choir, and is raising three small boys.