Master’s student Emily Tate, soprano, sang the role of Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Brooklyn Summer Opera Institute this past summer. Ms. Tate was also chosen as one of two sopranos to participate in the Asheville Lyric Opera Company’s young artist program this past August, and was contracted to sing the role of Frasquita in the Asheville Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of Bizet’s Carmen, in which she will also cover the role of Micaela. Ms. Tate is a student of Dr. Steven Rainbolt.