Press
"Soprano Naomi Merer...as Figaro's fiancée Susanna, brought a masterful sense of comedic verisimilitude to her role and championed a voice that grew in warmth and consonance..."
—Daniel Kepl in BravoCalifornia!
“…vivid soprano Naomi Merer singing the justice-seeking Donna Elvira.”
—Robert F. Adams in VOICE Magazine Santa Barbara
“Also worthy of mention were the Three Ladies, played by Amanda Osorio, Naomi Merer, and Athena Beebe; their scalar runs were well-synchronized, even as they fought over who would watch over the sleeping Tamino.”
—Logan Martell in OperaWire
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Come scoglio from Così fan tutte by W.A. Mozart
Dr. Ching-Yun Chen, piano
Video by David Bazemore from the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Competition
Spring from Songs and Sonnets to Ophelia by Jake Heggie
Mandee Madrid-Sikich, piano
Ved’ me kroky from Legenda o Kateřině z Redernu by Sylvie Bodorová
Dr. John Ballerino, piano
Video by David Bazemore from the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Competition
Naomi Merer’s DMA Lecture Recital, Get thee to an asylum: reflecting on the evolution of mental illness and its portrayal in Thomas’s operatic mad scene
Mandee Madrid Sikich, Piano
UCSB Music Department, May 2021