This season for HGO, Butler Studio alumna Sun-Ly Pierce performs the roles of Suzuki in Madame Butterfly and Snake/Sheep in the world-premiere chamber opera The Big Swim. She performed the role of Jack in HGO’s new production of The Wreckers in fall 2022; as Mercedes in Carmen, Sister Mathilde in Dialogues of the Carmelites, 2nd Lady in The Magic Flute, and Stephano in Romeo and Juliet during the 2021-22 season; and as Liesl in My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music and as Hansel in HGO Digital’s Hansel and Gretel in the 2020-21 season. Elsewhere during the 2023-24 season, Pierce sings Siegrune in Die Walküre with Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro with New Orleans Opera. During the 2022-23 season, Pierce debuted at Opera Philadelphia as Emilia in Otello; made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin with The Orchestra Now; sang Smeraldina in The Love for Three Oranges and Toledo in The Falling and the Rising with Des Moines Metro Opera; appeared with Detroit Opera as Arsamenes in Xerxes; sang Laurene Powell in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs with Calgary Opera; and performed Serenade to Music  for Bard SummerScape. Other highlights include performing the role of Bao Chai in Dream of the Red Chamber at San Francisco Opera, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Aspen Music Festival, and Dorinda in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Broad Street Orchestra. Pierce was the first prize winner in HGO’s 2020 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias and the 2019 Marilyn Horne Song Competition.