Amy Guevara is a lyric soprano whose performance as Carmela in Manuel De Falla´s opera, La Vida Breve, was commended by Opera News.  Other favorite roles/performance credits include Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus),  Lucy (The Telephone), Susanna (Le Nozze diFigaro), Vanessa (Vanessa),  The Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors),  Princess Rhyme (The Phantom Tollbooth), Monica (The Medium), and Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly) among many others. Originally from Redding, California, she received her Bachelor of Arts, Voice Performance from Butler University and her Masters of Music in Opera Performance from Arizona State University, where she studied with Darleen Kliewer-Britton.  Opera companies she has appeared with include Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, Victorian Lyric Opera, Lyric Opera Theatre, and Indiana Opera Theatre.  She has performed with the symphony orchestras in Phoenix, Virginia, and Indianapolis.  As a recitalist, she has sung on concert series in Washington D.C. (Dumbarton Church), Virginia (Reston), Arizona (Mesa) and Nebraska (Lincoln).   As well as operatic repertoire, she has appeared in performances of Candide, The Music Man, West Side Story, Oklahoma, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Gondoliers, Edgar, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Sunday in the Park With George, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The MerryWidow.  Besides a studio at Wesleyan, Amy is currently teaching private voice at Concordia University, Seward, and Doane College, Crete, as well as a private studio in her home.