Gilda Parlatto Lire


Mrs. Parlatto Lire’s debuted the role of the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Music on Site for over 1,500 students during outreach performances. During the summer of 2022, she was the cover of Mercédès in Carmen and toured as the Mezzo in The Enchanted Forest by Anna Young with Painted Sky Opera. Other notable roles include Magda Sorel (The Consul), Augusta Tabor* (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Miss Todd* (The Old Maid and the Thief), and Armelinde (Cendrillon) with the UCO Opera Theater, the Sandman (Hansel and Gretel) and Suzuki u/s (Madama Butterfly) with Painted Sky Opera, La Maestra delle Novizie (Suor Angelica) with Music On Site, Mrs. Nolan (The Medium) and Suzy u/s (La Rondine) with Chicago Summer Opera, Zita (Gianni Schicchi) and the Abbess (Suor Angelica) with Red River Lyric Opera, the Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Kirsten the Matchmaker (John Duke’s Captain Lovelock), and the Voice of Antonia's Mother (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Opera Theater.

Mrs. Parlatto Lire and her husband, Tyler A. Zwink, are in the process of relocating to Glasgow, Scotland.

* = cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic​ 
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