During HGO's 2026-27 season, Butler Studio alumna Lauren Snouffer performs as Magnolia Hawks in Show Boat. Previously for the company, Snouffer performed the roles of Bess in Breaking the Waves (2025), 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 2026-27 season, engagements bring the Texas native to Opera Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington Concert Opera, and English National Opera. During the 2025-26 season, Snouffer made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Sarah Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and a role debut as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Other recent roles include Mélisande in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Dallas Opera, the title role in Semele with the Atlanta Opera, Gerda in The Snow Queen by Hans Abrahamesen at Opéra National du Rhin, Justine in the world premiere of Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek’s Melancholia for the Royal Swedish Opera, 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, the Glyndebourne Festival, Seattle Opera, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Barber of Seville at Austin Opera; Xerxes with Detroit Opera; Rusalka, La clemenza di Tito, and a new production of Orphée et Eurydice at Lyric Opera of Chicago; La Comtesse Adèle in Rossini’s Le comte Ory in her debut at Seattle Opera;  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. The Houston Grand Opera label released a recording of Breaking the Waves, starring Snouffer as Bess, in 2026.