Melinda Ehrlich

Described by the Long Beach Grunion Gazette as “astonishing, a large, gleaming soprano secure from top to bottom and thrilling to hear,” Melinda Ehrlich is quickly establishing herself as a voice to hear in Southern California and beyond. This April, she will sing the role of Madame de la Haltière in Cendrillon. Most recently, she captured the “tempting sexuality” of Giulietta in Les contes d’Hoffmann and has performed scenes as Luisa Fernanda from Luisa Fernanda, the Prima Donna in Ariadne auf Naxos, and The Governess from Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. She is a graduate student at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, and is a recipient of the Cole, Mary Israel, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Pritchard scholarships. Two years ago, she was invited to join the Pi Kappa Lambda music honors fraternity. Melinda previously studied in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies and French from UC Berkeley in December 2003. She then worked full-time for several years in marketing for Lonely Planet travel guidebooks and as a writer with the CA Assembly Press Corps, and won awards in the local National Association of Teachers of Singing competition in opera and art song. Melinda is a student of Tim MacDougall and has studied with Shigemi Matsumoto.