During the 2024-25 season for HGO, Butler Studio alumna Lauren Snouffer performs the role of Bess in Breaking the Waves. Previous roles with the company include Sister Constance in Dialogues of the Carmelites (2022), Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro (2016, 2023), Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (2016), Ellie May Chipley in Show Boat (2013), Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia (2012), and Elvira in The Italian Girl in Algiers (2012). Elsewhere during the 2024-25 season, she performs the role of Mélisande in Pelléas and Mélisande at The Dallas Opera and the title role in Semele with The Atlanta Opera. During the 2023-24 season, Snouffer created the role of Justine in the world premiere of Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek’s Melancholia, based upon the film by Lars von Trier, for the Royal Swedish Opera. Other recent roles include Agnes in Written on Skin with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and La Musica in L’Orfeo with Santa Fe Opera. Additional highlights include The Magic Flute with the Zürich Opera House and the Glyndebourne Festival; The Barber of Seville at Austin Opera; Xerxes with Detroit Opera; Rusalka, La clemenza di Tito, and a new production of Orpheus and Eurydice at Lyric Opera of Chicago; La Comtesse Adèle in Rossini’s Le comte Ory in her debut at Seattle Opera; The Magic Flute at Seattle Opera and at Lyric Opera of Kansas City; a new production of Handel’s Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo with Philharmonia Baroque; and Max Emanuel Cencic’s new production of Siroe at the Royal Opera of Versailles. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording, for Handel’s Ottone.