In June soprano Jessica Abel (MM ’08) performed the role of Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore with the Victorian Lyric Opera Company in Rockville, Md., as well as in Gettysburg, Penn. as part of the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. She was also a 2010 finalist and prizewinner in the Friday Morning Music Club’s Washington International Competition, which took place on June 5 at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre in Washington, D.C