Truth, Light, and Serenity Soloists
Eden Bartholomew
Soprano
Soprano Eden Bartholomew is passionate about the range of expression, collaboration, and emotionality in vocal performance. She recently received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College, where she majored in Music and studied with Drew Minter. She won the Competition for Soloists and the Lucia V. Torian ‘69 Award twice at Vassar. Having also focused on British and American Literature, Eden strives to combine literary analysis with performance; her past operatic performances include Die Zauberflöte (Papagena), L’Orfeo (Musica), scenes from L’incoronazione di Poppea (Poppea), and Speed Dating Tonight! by Michael Ching. She was also featured as a Voice of Joan in Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light at the Bardavon Opera House in 2022. Eden sings with the Emmanuel Choir at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Baltimore. When not singing, Eden can be found mountain biking, journaling, or watercolor painting. She is pursuing her Master of Music degree in Voice at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins, where she studies with Professor Elizabeth Futral.
Christina Grohowski
Mezzo-Soprano
Christina Grohowski, mezzo-soprano, is a first year graduate student at Yale Opera. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice and Opera from Purchase College’s Conservatory of Music. She has performed the roles of Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mother Marie and Madame de Croissy in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and La Maestra delle Novizie in Suor Angelica. From 2021-2023, Christina was the Alto Section Leader of the choir at Union Church of Pocantico Hills in Tarrytown, NY. During her time at Union Church, Christina was featured in numerous solo sacred works, including Mozart’s “Alleluia” from Exultate, jubilate, Handel’s “Rejoice Greatly” from Messiah, and Mendelssohn’s “O rest in the Lord” from Elijah. This past summer, Christina attended Houston Grand Opera's Young Artists' Vocal Academy and two vocal intensive programs with Classic Lyric Arts focused on Mozart and Bel Canto Repertoire; one taking place in the Berkshires, Massachusetts and the other in Novafeltria, Italy. While at CLA Italy, Christina had the unique opportunity to sing in the premiere of composer/conductor Raphael Fusco’s “Le parole dei mesi” for SATB choir with divisi a cappella. This year at Yale, she looks forward to singing the roles of Mother Goose in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Christina is a student of Adriana Zabala.
Alex Longnecker
Tenor
Lauded for his “Handsome, potent tenor and vivid, expressive delivery (Dallas Morning News), Alex Longnecker comfortably performs a wide range of styles, including ensemble singing, opera, recital repertoire, commercial singing, and musical theater. He currently serves as a member of the choir of men and boys at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York. Professional choral credits include the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, The New Consort, Bard Festival Chorale, New York Virtuoso Singers, Dallas Bach Society, and the Verdigris Ensemble. Alex has recently sung operatic roles with American Baroque Opera Company, Opera in the Rock, Cedar Rapids Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, University of North Texas Opera, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Alex made his Lincoln Center solo debut with Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard 415 in Telemann’s Tag des Gerichts, under the baton of Masaaki Suzuki. Other recent solo engagements include full performances of Schumann’s Dichterliebe, lute song
performances with Collectio Musicorum, Mozart’s Requiem with Princeton Pro Musica, assorted works with the Blue Hill Bach Festival, Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Berkshire Bach Society, Handel’s Messiah with the Yale Glee Club, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion with the Dallas Bach Society, and Bach’s St. John’s Passion with UNT’s Collegium Singers. Alex holds a bachelor's degree in music education from Iowa State University, and a master's degree in vocal performance from the University of North Texas, and master’s in musical arts in early music voice at Yale University, where he performed with the eight voice Yale Voxtet. Alex is a native of Ankeny, Iowa.
Eric Luis Viñas
Baritone
A Palm Beach, FL, USA native, currently based in New York City, Eric studied opera at both New England Conservatory in Boston, MA and Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Past performances/ engagements have included features at Sarasota Opera, New York City Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Opera Naples, in roles such as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Germont in La Traviata, Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Joseph de Rocher in Dead Man Walking, Marcello in La bohème, and many others.
Outside of the opera stage, concert features in the New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Charleston, and Boston areas. Viñas’ performing has been noted for “movie star charisma” by the South Florida Classical Review on his debut operatic role as Sid in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. Other comments include, from his 2017 performance of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, from Carly Gordon of Schmopera “Viñas’ crooning, cocky De Rocher stole the show, at once raw, frightened, and menacing. Viñas captured De Rocher’s anger and desperation with languid, smoky finesse.