LINDA SUDA
Past Instructor UNC at Charlotte | Past Visiting Artist at Davidson | Past Music Faculty at Covenant Classical School.
Linda Suda has performed a variety of operatic and music theatre roles with companies on the east coast as well as in the west. A native of Pennsylvania, Ms. Suda graduated from Seton Hill College and pursued graduate studies at the University of Missouri and Peabody Conservatory.
While a student at Peabody, Ms. Suda was chosen, through process of audition, as an Artist Diploma candidate. She was a national winner in the American Opera Awards, a Metropolitan Opera Regional Finalist and a finalist with the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York City. Ms. Suda has received critical acclaim for her oratorio roles including the Angel in LAUD TO THE NATIVITY, and soprano soloist in the ELIJAH, BACH CANTATA #51, and the Rutter REQUIEM. She has performed as a soloist with the Four Corners Opera of Colorado, Light Opera of Manhattan, Baltimore Opera Company, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis among others. Ms. Suda's appearances with other organizations include soloist with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, Seattle, Wa., Tacoma Opera,Wa, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Wa. One of her most memorable appearances was as a soprano soloist with the Earshot Jazz Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts, Seattle, Wa.
Linda was co-founder and general director of Oklahoma Civic Opera in Oklahoma City and as an Oklahoma State Arts Council Artist in Residence Linda directed and performed the role of the Queen of the Night in that company’s first production of THE MAGIC FLUTE. Linda is a past Artist in Residence in New York, Oklahoma, and was a rostered artist with the Washington State Arts Commission and the Educational School District in Mt. Vernon, Wa. She is a former instructor of music and drama at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett (formerly Holy Cross High School) and served as director and choreographer for their musical theatre productions. Linda held the position of Arts Director at Cannon School and most recently served as a music studies lecturer and adjunct professor at UNC Charlotte. She was chosen again to direct the opera scenes at Davidson College for the Department of Music.
She was a voice faculty member at the Gaston School of the Arts and maintained an active private voice studio in Concord, North Carolina. She has recently retired as the Director of Music at the Covenant Classical School in Concord, North Carolina in order to concentrate on her children’s opera company, OPERAISAWESOME, LLC. She is represented by Stageplays.com for publication.
