How you might know her:
Christine Ebersole is a Tony Award-winning performer who wowed critics and audiences in productions like Dinner at Eight, 42nd Street, and Grey Gardens.
MV Connection:
She previously starred in our 2010 production of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall.
Her Fairy Focus:
As the Queen of the Fairies, she must keep and abide by the laws she’s written. But who’s to say those laws can’t be amended?
How you might know her:
From her groundbreaking debut in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of My Fair Lady, to A Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Company, Shereen is a rising star on stage.
MV Connection:
A new addition to the MasterVoices Family!! Welcome!
Her Fairy Focus:
As Strephon’s mother, she will do anything to help her son win the woman of his dreams. She herself was banished for loving a mortal, and she won’t have her son suffer the same fate!
How you might know him:
His recent work in the dramatic song cycle UNKNOWN by Shawn Okpebholo and commissioned by UrbanArias has been featured on PBS News Hour and NPR, among other publications.
MV Connection:
Another new addition to the MasterVoices Family!!
His Fairy Focus:
Technically he’s half-fairy, half-mortal, and his love of a mortal woman drives him. Unfortunately, Strephon has a lot of competition from just about every peer in the House of Lords, including the Lord Chancellor himself! But he’ll do what it takes to win the fair Phyllis.
How you might know her:
Tiler Peck is an international award-winning Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet, an actress, designer, and choreographer. She launched and starred in the Los Angeles Music Center’s presentation of BalletNOW, part of the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance At The Music Center program. Tiler also starred in the Hulu feature documentary, BALLET NOW.
MV Connection: A new member of the MasterVoices Family – Welcome!!
Her Fairy Focus: She is our Dancing Fairy – adding grace and beauty to our concert staging. All the fairies in IOLANTHE are described as “ever singing, ever dancing” and Tiler will dance as our chorus of fairies sings!
And these ladies – in addition to all the women of the chorus – complete our finagle of fairies! Our Fairies have been bored ever since the Queen banished Iolanthe – they kick off the whole show by begging the Queen of the Fairies to reverse her decision and let Iolanthe return to the Fairyland.
NICOLE GOLDSTEIN
Professional Highlight:
With an affinity for both musical theatre and opera, Nicole made her international debuts last year as the title role in the world premiere of & Aeterna, a new opera performed as the sequel to Dido & Aeneas in Italy, followed by the role of Mrs. M in a new musical, M for Marriage in Denmark.
MV Highlight:
Performing in last year’s sold-out performance of Anyone Can Whistle. It was Nicole’s first step-out role, and it won’t be the last.
KAITLYN LEBARON
Professional Highlight:
Kaitlyn has been featured as a vocalist on Kelly Clarkson’s National tour, America’s Got Talent, TedX, and Good Morning America.
MV Highlight:
Her first concert with MasterVoices was this past February in The Lord of the Rings in Concert at Radio City Music Hall. An epic start – and we’re so glad to have her with us!
EMY ZENER
Professional Highlight:
When she’s not on stage with MV, Emy Zener is a psychotherapist based in Washington Heights in Manhattan.
MV Highlight:
Emy has been a member of the MasterVoices Chorus since 2016. She did, however, get to sing along with the Chorale in 1987 in a Children’s Chorus, where, at a rehearsal in Carnegie, Pavorotti wandered into the house to read his newspaper! Since then, her favorite MV memory is performing in Lady in the Dark in 2019.
