Featured Artist

Laura Hengle performs throughout the region as a guest soloist, recitalist and stage performer. Recent opera experience includes Siebel in “Marguerite” (an adaptation of “Faust”), La Badessa in “Suor Angelica,” Cousin Hebe in “HMS Pinafore,” mezzo soloist in “Unplugged: Technology Detox” and Hansel in “Hansel & Gretel” all with Opera Per Tutti. Other roles include Annio in “La Clemenza di Tito,” The Mother in “Hansel & Gretel,” Edith in “Pirates of Penzance” and Allison in the NE Ohio premiere of “Suburb: The Musical.” Ms. Hengle’s recital work includes concerts at the Tremont Arts in August Festival (also with Opera Per Tutti), Fairlawn Lutheran Church and the Akron Woman’s City Club.

She received her Masters of Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College where she studied with Lindsay Christensen and coached with J.J. Penna and Dalton Baldwin. Ms. Hengle received her Bachelor of Vocal Performance degree from Baldwin-Wallace College where she studied with Sophie Ginn-Paster. She works as the Director of Marketing for Bock & Clark, an Akron-based national commercial real estate service company. She thanks her family, including husband Brian and son Nicholas, for all of their support.