Amanda Noelle Neal, soprano, graduated from Loyola University New Orleans with her Bachelors of Music in vocal performance in 2011, and will receive her Masters of Music from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts in May of 2013.

She has performed the roles of Isabell and Edith in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica. Amanda will go to Viterbo, Italy this summer to play the role of Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro with the International Lyric Academy. She currently lives in Chicago and is in a Latin fusion band, Nu Bambu.