Isabel (Izzy) Barbato is thrilled to join the Rostra Collective for this project. A native Floridian, Barbato graduated Summa cum laude from Stetson University, where she studied a diverse repertoire of music, including Classical opera, Baroque concert repertoire, musical theatre, and new music composed by her own peers. There she held lead roles in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, and worked as an Apprentice Artist with Opera Orlando. She has won numerous awards for her academic and musical success, including the prestigious Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award. Izzy recently graduated with her Masters in Voice Performance from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a member of the Yale Voxtet Ensemble. During her time at Yale, she held lead roles in Handel’s Jephtha, A. Scarlatti’s Il martirio di Sant’Orsola, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, and Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar.

 

Barbato holds a passion for leadership and education in the arts. She is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and has been teaching voice since she was in high school herself, both privately and in co-directing many Jr. musicals. She has spent four summers as an Activity Director at the Oregon Bach Festival, where she has found both musical and pedagogical inspiration.

 

This summer, Barbato attended Middlebury Language School’s “German for Singers” program, and performed a Mozart pasticcio in Scharbeutz, Germany. Currently, she sings with Yale Consort and is a section leader at St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel.