Captivating audiences with her voice and presence

Soprano, Kerri Lynn Slominski, captivates her audiences with her voice and presence.  Often known online as #AlternativeDiva, this talented singing actress dominates the stage with commanding force, delightful comedic timing and provides memorable performances.  She  strives to make opera accessible to all and has been praised for having a powerfully lovely, expressive warm voice and outstanding presentation.
 

Ms. Slominski recently enchanted her audience as Gretel in Opera Boheme NJ’s production of Humperdinck’s timeless classic, Hansel and Gretel.  She also was delightful as the role of Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera with Amici Opera Company.  As a supporter of new opera works, Slominski debuted the quick witted Viola in a world premiere performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Scenes from a New Opera at the 2022 Rochester Fringe Festival.   
 

Decorated with many achievements, Slominski was a 2021 Semi-Finalist for the Premiere Opera Foundation/NYIOP International Vocal Competition and a 2021 GVCA: Restart NY: Performance Grant for La Voix Humaine. She is a two-time performance grant recipient from the Opera Guild of Rochester.  In 2020, she received a vocal competition grant from the Jensen Foundation. Her performance of Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone earned her the 2019 Critics’ Pick by CITY Newspaper (Rochester, New York).  She was a Semi-Finalist in the 2018 Southold Opera Singing Competition and a Finalist in the 2018 Elaine Malbin Vocal Competition.  Additional accolades include the Philip Y. Cho Scholarship Fund, Howard Olian Memorial Fund and the Lillian Mann Prize in Voice. 
 

An avid traveling artist, Slominski performs wherever she can.  She has had the privilege of performing with: Theatre Now NY, Opera on the Rocks, Rochester Fringe Festival, ROCopera, Brooklyn Opera Institute, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Opera Breve, Trentino Music Festival, Opera in the Ozarks and Mercury Opera Rochester.  

Noted as a talented creator and producer, Ms. Slominski was the Co-Founder of ROCopera and served as the Co-Artistic Director from 2020-22 where she provided artists with performance opportunities online.  In 2017, she debuted her own operatic cabaret show: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Audition at the 2017 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival.   Jack Garner (Democrat and Chronicle) praised it as an “amusing opera memoir”. 

She has graced the stage singing the roles of: Elle (La Voix Humaine), Mollie (Animal Farm - Staged Reading) Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Queen of the Night and First Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), Lucy (The Telephone), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring), Giannetta and cover for Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica) Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) and the Mother (Hansel and Gretel).

Ms. Slominski holds a Professional Studies Certificate in Opera and a Master’s in Music in Opera Performance from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.  She also received her Bachelor’s in Music in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.  Slominski attended the high school preparatory program at the Eastman Community Music School and received an Advanced Achievement Diploma in Voice.