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Tiffany Blake

Assistant Professor of Voice
Soprano, Coordinator of Voice, Freshman Voice Studio

Praised by Opera News Online for her “…truly virtuoso performance….immaculate tone, good support and breath to spare.”, soprano, Dr. Tiffany Blake, received her DMA in Vocal Performance with a minor in Opera Stage Direction from the Eastman School of Music, where she also earned her MM and was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate. She received her BA from Sonoma State University in Northern California. In 2009 Dr. Blake was one of twelve interns chosen from applicants across the U.S. and Canada to participate in the prestigious NATS Internship Program.

Dr. Blake's operatic roles include the title role in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, Despina in Così fan tutte, Mercedes in Carmen , the character of Anne Sexton in Conrad Susa’s Transformations, Lady Saphir in Patience, Lucy in The Telephone, and Miss Pinkerton in The Old Maid and the Thief. Other solo engagements have included appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Missouri Symphony Orchestra and Opera Fort Collins. She is a regular performer with the Odyssey Chamber Music concert series in Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Blake has a special interest in song literature, and has given several recitals in Georgia, New York, Illinois, Missouri and California, including a radio broadcast for Opus: Classics Live NPR in Buffalo, New York and an appearance with Chicago’s Arts at Large.

She has served on the faculties of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Syracuse University, Alfred University and Sonoma State University. In addition to many opera scenes programs, Dr. Blake’s directing credits include La Cenerentola and A Little Night Music for Colorado State Opera Theater, Die Fledermaus, Riders to the Sea, The Wandering Scholar, Suor Angelica, Dido and Aeneas, The Old Maid and the Thief, La Canterina and highlights from L’elisir d’amore for the University of Missouri School of Music and The Cradle will Rock for the Eastman School of Music Opera Workshop.