Laura Beth Couch (she/her), lauded by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for singing with “deep pathos” and “radiant affection,” is a mezzo-soprano living in Boston. She earned her Performance Diploma from Boston University where she performed as Julia Child in Bon Appétit, Dorothée in Cendrillon, Alice 2 in Alice Tierney, and Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women. Other favorite roles include Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Opera51), Bradamante in Alcina (MassOpera), Mrs. Phagan in Parade (Lowell House Opera), Tisbe in La Cenerentola, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, and Babette in Beauty and the Beast (Bay View Music Festival). Laura has been a soloist for Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Requiem, and Coronation Mass, Bach’s Magnificat, Charpentier’s Te Deum, Bononcini’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Marianna Martines’s Dixit Dominus. A dedicated music teacher of over 10 years, she earned her M.M. in Voice Performance from Shenandoah University and her B.M. in Music Education from Rutgers University.