Liz Lang
Liz Lang joined the VOICE family in 2019 when she won the Sherrill Milnes American Opera Award at the American Traditions Vocal Collection.
Since that initial meeting she has been involved with the festival in each subsequent year with highlights including her solo, headliner recital “Prohibition” and Mimì in La Bohème in 2021, Fiona in Brigadoon in the 2022 season, and as a soloist in concert with The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra the 2023 season. Of her time in Savannah she says, “I’ve made some of my best friends in Savannah. As soon as I met the VOICE staff and artists, I knew they were family.”
Santiago Ballerini
Santiago Ballerini, tenor, is a long-time favorite of Savannah VOICE Festival’s audiences, singing with our Festival since Season 1. You may remember him as the titular young lover Romeo in Roméo et Juliette (left, below) in 2016 or our 2017 Barber of Seville (right, below).
Santiago has been involved with the Milnes VOICE Programs at all levels: training within the programs, performing roles and recitals in the Festival, and even teaching in the Milnes VOICE Studio when it moved online for the 2020 season.
Andrew Bisantz
This week we caught up with Maestro Andrew Bisantz. Maestro Bisantz has been been with the company since 2007, beginning with his involvement in VOICExperience in Florida. In 2014, he conducted the company’s first production in Savannah, Don Giovanni. He has subsequently conducted Carmen, Le nozze di Figaro, Dialogues of the Carmelites, La bohème, Michael Ching’s A Royal Feast, The Medium, Ching’s Alice Ryley and Anna Hunter, and Don Giovanni in the 2023 season.
Peter Lake
Peter Lake has been a beloved member of the VOICE Family since 2017. The last time we saw him at the festival he dazzled audiences with his Mario Lanzo Concert at the Charles H. Morris Center. After leaving Savannah, Peter performed as a featured ensemble member for Pensacola Opera’s Forty Forward: Celebrating Four Decades of Opera in Pensacola at the historic Saenger with full orchestra as well as giving many concerts throughout the fall of 2022.
Elizabeth De Trejo
Elizabeth De Trejo served as the Director of Camp VOICE, the Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs training opportunity for high school students for two summers. She delights in sharing her knowledge with young artists, empowering them to go into the world to create joyfully.
She first met Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves while singing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Tampa and was subsequently invited to sing in the the Savannah VOICE Festival’s 2014 production of Don Giovanni in the role of Donna Elvira.