Soprano Emilie Kealani is a proud Filipina from San Francisco. In 2022, she was an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, and she joined the Glimmerglass Festival for their 2023 season singing Musetta in La bohème. Emilie made her international debut in 2023 with Staatsoper Stuttgart singing Jano in their revival of Jenůfa. She won the Philadelphia District of the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and is an alumna of The Curtis Institute of Music (MM ‘25) and The Manhattan School of Music (BM ‘21). Emilie made her OTSL debut in the 2025 edition of New Works Collective, originating the role of Mia in Family Style and returned for the 2025 Festival Season as a Gerdine Young Artist.

Baritone Emilio Vásquez, from Manvel, Texas, is the William J. Fenza Fellow at The Curtis Institute of Music. He is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he sang numerous roles including Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), Jupiter (Orpheus in the Underworld), and Marco (Gianni Schicchi). He has also performed the role of Schaunard (La bohème) with the International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia. Last summer, he joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, covering the role of Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale.

Pianist Jonathan Heaney most recently served as music director for Opera on the Go’s 2025 production of Treemonisha. Previous credits include The Turn of the Screw at On Site Opera, and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Julliard Opera. He cofounded City Lyric Opera and River City Opera and has a Master of Music in Collaborative Piano from the Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Washington University in St. Louis.  He has served as repetiteur for OTSL’s New Works Collective as well as the 2025 production of Die Fledermaus.