Soprano Lara Lynn Cottrill  will cover Frasquita in Carmen with Sarasota Opera in the 2012 winter season.  She recently performed The Foreign Woman in Menotti's The Consul with Opera New Jersey in the summer of 2011.  Other operatic roles include , her 2010 Pittsburgh Opera debut as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Sandrina in Mozart's La finta giardiniera, Lauretta in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Papagena in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Adina in The elixir of Love by Donizetti. Lara graduated with her masters of Voice Performance and Literature from Eastman School of Music in 2007 and from University of Miami in 2005 with a bachelors in Vocal Performance.  Lara is a 2009 Winner of the Pittsburgh Concert Society Competition.  In 2005, she placed First in the Friends of Eastman Opera Competition and in 2004 was honorable mention in Univeristy of Miami's Salzburg Competition, Austria.  She performs professionally with Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble, Undercroft Opera, and the Jubilation Concert Series of First Presbyterian Church of Beaver.  She will be singing with Sarasota Opera this fall.  She has given numerous concerts in PA, FL, NY, VA, Italy, and South Africa.  Lara believes music can enrich communities and education.  She performs at local nursing homes, gives master classes for high school students, presents opera to elementary classes, and teaches private students of all ages.  She currently teaches at Geneva College and St. Vincent College while pursuing her career.  Hear Lara sing...