General Director Stacey Trenteseaux, as a soprano and artistic leader, is passionate about fostering innovation and creativity in the arts and across industries. She has served as the Executive Director of Opera Mississippi, Artistic Director of the International Performing Arts Institute, and a creative consultant and grant writer for multiple arts organizations and individual artists. Stacey has performed leading roles in the United States and Germany including Rosalinde (J. Strauss’, Die Fledermaus), Luisa (Verdi’s Luisa Miller) Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Micaëla (Bizet’s Carmen), Fiordiligi (Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte), Hanna (Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe), Angelica (Pucinni’s Suor Angelica), and First Lady (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte) among others. She regularly speaks as an advocate of opera and creativity presenting vocal, artistic entrepreneurship, and business master classes and workshops to young artists and business professionals.