Elizabeth Truitt, soprano, has performed with opera companies across the United States in such roles as Alice Ford in Falstaff, Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, the Countess in le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Lady Billows in Albert Herring, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Mother in Hänsel und Gretel and other roles in the spinto soprano repertoire. Equally comfortable on the concert stage, Ms. Truitt has sung a variety of works including Vaughn William's Sinfonia Antartica, Dubois's Seven Last Words of Christ, Faure's Requiem, and Verdi's Requiem. Ms. Truitt received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Baylor University, where she studied under internationally recognized pedagogue John Van Cura. She is currently in her seventh year at Ball State University where she teaches voice to musical theatre majors in the Department of Theatre and Dance. She has previously served on the faculty of the University of Evansville, the University of Southern Indiana, Southeastern Louisiana University, and the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. Her students have gone on to such prestigious graduate programs as Yale, Harvard, NYU, Brown, ACT, UCSD, Rutgers, UC Irvine and have worked in Regional Theatres, National Tours, on Broadway, in Film, and on Television.