Amanda Lauricella

Amanda Lauricella is a professional musician and amateur poet, bird-noticer, and climate advocate based in Madison, Wisconsin. Previous opera roles include Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Goldie B. Locks in Goldie B. Locks and the Three Singing Bears, the Doctor in the world premiere of The Scarlet Professor, and Rosina in Opera for the Young’s The Barber of Seville. Additional projects include Cedar Rapids Opera, the Berlin Opera Academy, and Fresco Opera Theatre.

Amanda recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Voice Performance with a minor in Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she offered a lecture recital on the many musical settings of Hamlet’s Ophelia. This recital presented various psychological interpretations of the character, exploring the motivations for the events surrounding her death through a modern lens, with both mental health and feminism considerations. She has also recently published a vocal repertoire guide for collegiate voice teachers entitled, “Selecting Solo Literature for the Developing Classical Singer: A Pedagogical Repertoire Guide for Teachers of Voice.”

Amanda was the 2021 recipient of the Charles and Helen Loeb Voice Award, a national semi-finalist for the 2021 NATS Artist Awards, and a finalist for the Musicians Club of Women 2023 Vocal Competition. She is currently working as an Adjunct Professor of Voice at Carroll University and Beloit College. She also volunteers with 350 Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization that works to make transformational progress toward environmental justice and solving the climate crisis.