SEASON 2025 / 2025

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VERISMO OPERA, SF BAY AREA

Suor Genovieffa - SUOR ANGELICA - PUCCINI (3/29 - 4/13, Role-Specific Performance Dates: 3/29 & 4/6)

West Coast Opera: SERVINO’S NIGHT AT THE OPERA, TIBURON, CA

March 12, 2025

Happy New Year, 2025!!

Celebrating this New Year singing the role of Suor Genovieffa in a new performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica (one of 3 operas in his Il Trittico), paired with Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana with Verismo Opera this spring.

Wishing you all a harmonious and adventurous New Year, filled with the rhythm of joy and the melody of fresh beginnings!

About Kristin

Kristin Genis-Lund, lyric coloratura soprano, has performed extensively throughout Northern California in musical theatre, oratorio, opera and recitals.

Ms. Genis-Lund has been active in mainstage productions of West Bay Opera, Opera San Jose, Bay Shore Lyric Opera and Opera Cultura, to name a few.  Roles include Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Sophie in Massenet’s Werther, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Oscar in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Manon in the title role of Massenet's opera, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen.  More recently, she made her debut in Opera Cultura’s production of Rodriguez’s Frida singing the role of Cristina Kahlo/Mrs. Ford.  In April, she will sing Sister Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica with Verismo Opera. 

Musical theatre roles include Laurey in Peninsula Musical Theater’s Oklahoma! and Maria in Peninsula Center Stage’s West Side Story. In 2015, Ms. Genis-Lund sang as soprano soloist with the orchestral ensemble Rosin Coven for the world premiere of The Stupid Joke, an original staged mini-opera based on one of Edward Gorey's illustrated stories for the 16th Annual Edwardian Ball in San Francisco & Los Angeles.

Concert appearances include Brahm’s German Requiem, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass in D, Beethoven's Mass in C, Dvorak's Te Deum, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Coronation Mass and the Exultate Jubilate and Bruckner's Te Deum, in addition to Dr. Ron Kean's The American Hymn Mass with The Choral Project.  Ms. Genis-Lund recently made her Bing Concert Hall debut at Stanford singing the soprano solo in the World Premiere of Giancarlo Aquilanti’s Te Deum.  

Ms. Genis-Lund was the first place winner in 3 consecutive NATS Competitions for Art Song and Opera and a finalist in the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra Vocalist Competition. She presently studies with Pamela Fry in Palo Alto