Prior to directing her attentions full time to retraining for the musical theatre, Elizabeth Saunders worked internationally as a lyric mezzo-soprano. Crossover roles performed include the Old Lady in Bernstein’s Candide with the Lyric Opera of San Diego, Anna in Kurt Weill’s Die Bürgschaft at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau’s Kurt Weill Fest and at the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, Meg in Brigadoon with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, as well as Pops concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra, and the Unified Jazz Ensemble. She makes her New York City acting debut this July in Nathan Wright’s “Peninsula” at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre.
 
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