Hansel & Gretel at Tri-Cities Opera

Kanade Motomura is an emerging mezzo-soprano resident artist with Tri-Cities Opera for the 2026–2027 season, where she will perform the roles of Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel. This past summer, she was a Studio Artist with Central City Opera, performing scenes from the title role in Cenerentola and Jo March in Little Women. Kanade is a graduate of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where she studied under Dr. Robin Rice. During her time at Rice, she sang Meg Page in Falstaff and Ruggiero in Alcina. In the spring of 2025, she participated in the Rice’s annual Aleko Residency with Ryan McKinney, performing a scene as Sister Helen from Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking alongside McKinney.

Maine-based soprano Kate Fogg (she/her) has been praised for her “rich coloratura” (Ludwig Van) and “impeccably placed, safe and effective” voice (Le Devoir). She is a recent graduate of McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where she earned her Master of Music in Voice and Opera. This summer, she joins Toronto Opera Festival as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi (role debut), and will attend Music Academy of The West as a Lehrer Vocal Fellow, competing in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition and singing Aveline Mortimer in Elizabeth Cree. She was the 2025 first-place winner of the Wirth Vocal Prize. Recent role debuts include Clara Johnson (The Light In The Piazza); Nella (Gianni Schicchi); La Fée (Cendrillon); Governess (The Turn of The Screw). She will perform a June recital with Bar Harbor Music Festival, and has recently given recitals at the Canadian Opera Company’s RBA and The Canadian Center for Architecture.

Kevin Douglas Jasaitis is a versatile American baritone performing opera, oratorio, and musical theater. Kevin most recently performed as a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, performing in Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette (Gregorio), and in A Light in the Piazza (The Priest). Kevin also performed this year with Sarasota Opera as an Apprentice Artist. Other recent opera credits include performing with Opera Neo in their production of L’elisir d’amore in San Diego, as well as La Traviata (Germont) with City Lyric Opera. A recent fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, Kevin performed works such as Un clin d’Oeil by Tebogo Monnakgotla, and Being Music by Charles Fussell. Past concert credits include the Oyster Bay Music Festival, Fidelio (Rocco) with Concerts in the Village, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with Florilegium Chamber Choir. Recent opera credits include Raphaël Lucas’ Confession (Father Francis) and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi (Marco) with Purchase Opera. Kevin holds a BM in Opera from the Purchase Conservatory and an MM in Opera from the Mannes School of Music.

Lauded for their versatile characterizations and “crystal-clear high register” (Opera Today), Italian-American soprano Sofia Scattarreggia is a quickly emerging force on the operatic scene. They have appeared in a wide variety of roles such as Blanche in Dialogues des Carmelites, Florencia in Florencia en el Amazonas, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, among others. Most recently, Dr. Scattarreggia covered the roles of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and appeared as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Annapolis Opera. Scattarreggia is a three-time award winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition (St. Louis District Winner, 2026; Buffalo-Toronto Encouragement Award Winner, 2024; Buffalo-Toronto District Winner, 2023). Recent competition appearances include as a Finalist in the Opera Naples Luciano Pavarotti Competition (2026) and as a semifinalist in the George and Nora London Competition (2026), among others. They received their Doctor of Musical Arts in 2025 from the Eastman School of Music under the instruction of soprano Nicole Cabell.