Chicago-based lyric coloratura soprano Elizabeth Fisher is a young artist on the rise.  Returning to Bellissima Opera, Miss Fisher will sing the role of Stella in Pauline Virado's Le dernier sorcier and Tytania in selections from Brittan's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the summer. This fall, she will make her company debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a Soprano Chorister in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and sing the soprano solo in Mozart's Missa brevis with the Umeri Chorus in Des Moines, Iowa. Her 2026 will begin with her company debut at Nashville Opera as a Mary Ragland Emerging Artist and singing Berta in The Barber of Seville. Miss Fisher recently played the role of Mabel in Pirates of Penzance with Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company.  In the summer of 2024, she sang with Bellissima Opera, playing the roles of Anny Ondra in Outside the Ring and a Dater in Speed Dating Tonight! She recently performed the role of Ruth, along with understudying the role of Rose, in Ruddigore with the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. During the summer of 2022, Ms. Fisher was a Festival Artist with Utah Festival Opera, covering Laurie in The Tender Land and Pamina in The Magic Flute, in addition to multiple ensemble roles.