Click here for an article featuring Lisa as Julia Child
in Heartland Opera Theatre's production of Bon Appetit! (Sep. 2019)
in Heartland Opera Theatre's production of Bon Appetit! (Sep. 2019)
Click on the 'Events' tab for information on Lisa's upcoming performances!
Contralto Lisa Marie Gerstenkorn is currently performing in her second season as a Filstrup Resident Artist with the Tulsa Opera Traveling Voices. In February 2020, she will reprise her role of Ruth in Opera Kansas' production of Pirates of Penzance. Recent performances include the roles of La Principessa (Puccini's Suor Angelica), Ursule (Berlioz' Beatrice et Benedict), Julia Child (Hoiby's Bon Appetit!) and music of Luigi Rossi with the Amherst Early Music Festival Winter Weekend in Philadelphia in January 2020. In the summer of 2019, she performed as Zita (Puccini's Gianni Schicchi) with the American Opera Studio in the towns of Toledo, Salamanca, and Plasencia, Spain. During the summer 2018, she spent two fantastic weeks performing with the Oregon Bach Festival, and one month in Nova Scotia performing the role of Arnalta in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival.
She has performed as a Resident Artist with the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, Ohio and the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She has also performed in New York with the Institute for 17th Century Music- Baroque Opera Workshop. Other appearances have been with the Heartland Opera Theatre of Joplin, MO, Music On Site, Inc. of Wichita, KS, Ozark Family Opera Company of Bentonville, AR, Lawrence Opera
Theatre, Springfield Regional Opera, Southeast Kansas Symphony, and the Taneycomo Festival in Branson, MO.
Ms. Gerstenkorn is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and a member of the music fraternity Pi Kappa Lambda. She currently serves as Adjunct Voice Instructor at both Missouri Southern State University and Pittsburg State University. She has also served as Adjunct Voice Instructor at Kansas City Community College in Kansas City, KS.
Contralto Lisa Marie Gerstenkorn is currently performing in her second season as a Filstrup Resident Artist with the Tulsa Opera Traveling Voices. In February 2020, she will reprise her role of Ruth in Opera Kansas' production of Pirates of Penzance. Recent performances include the roles of La Principessa (Puccini's Suor Angelica), Ursule (Berlioz' Beatrice et Benedict), Julia Child (Hoiby's Bon Appetit!) and music of Luigi Rossi with the Amherst Early Music Festival Winter Weekend in Philadelphia in January 2020. In the summer of 2019, she performed as Zita (Puccini's Gianni Schicchi) with the American Opera Studio in the towns of Toledo, Salamanca, and Plasencia, Spain. During the summer 2018, she spent two fantastic weeks performing with the Oregon Bach Festival, and one month in Nova Scotia performing the role of Arnalta in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the Halifax Summer Opera Festival.
She has performed as a Resident Artist with the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, Ohio and the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She has also performed in New York with the Institute for 17th Century Music- Baroque Opera Workshop. Other appearances have been with the Heartland Opera Theatre of Joplin, MO, Music On Site, Inc. of Wichita, KS, Ozark Family Opera Company of Bentonville, AR, Lawrence Opera
Theatre, Springfield Regional Opera, Southeast Kansas Symphony, and the Taneycomo Festival in Branson, MO.
Ms. Gerstenkorn is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and a member of the music fraternity Pi Kappa Lambda. She currently serves as Adjunct Voice Instructor at both Missouri Southern State University and Pittsburg State University. She has also served as Adjunct Voice Instructor at Kansas City Community College in Kansas City, KS.