LAURA PFORTMILLER has appeared throughout the United States with such companies as Tulsa Opera, Light Opera Oklahoma, Natchez Opera Festival, Opera Delaware, Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, OperaIdaho, Sorg Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Bronx Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Elysium Opera, Amarillo Opera, Inspiration Point/Opera in the Ozarks and the Harrisburg Symphony.

Her repertoire includes the title role in Massenet’s Manon, Nedda (I Pagliacci), Mimi (La Boheme), Gilda (Rigoletto), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Donna Elvira and Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna, Countess and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Mary (Hugh the Drover), Sophie (Werther) and the Soprano Soloist in Carmina Burana.

Equally at home in musical theatre and contemporary music, Ms. Pfortmiller has performed to critical acclaim the roles of Hanna (The Merry Widow), Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Marietta (Naughty Marietta), Phyllis (Iolanthe), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Josephine (HMS Pinafore), Margot (The Desert Song) Countess Zedlau (Wiener Blut), Princess Zara (Utopia Limited) and Charlotte in Manhattan School of Music’s New York premiere of The Yellow Wallpaper.

Ms. Pfortmiller made her Lincoln Center (Avery Fisher Hall) debut with the National Chorale in an evening celebrating the music of George Gershwin which included a show-stopping rendition of My Man’s Gone Now. She has soloed with the National Chorale in two subsequent concerts celebrating the music of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. She was also honored to be the soprano soloist with Simon Estes in a concert version of Porgy and Bess sponsored by the Simon Estes Foundation in Tulsa, OK.

Ms. Pfortmiller made her European debut with the IVAI program in Casalmaggiore, Italy as Mrs. Gobineau in The Medium and was most recently seen as the title character in Lehar’s The Merry Widow with Oswego Opera.

Upcoming engagements include a return to Lake George Opera Festival as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia.