Alina Brinker-Ramos, mezzo-soprano

Alina Brinker-Ramos, mezzo-soprano is a Vocal Performance and Choral Education major at PFW with a minor in Spanish. She is a Fort Wayne native who loves to crochet when she’s not performing, and she’s also the oldest of eleven children. No stranger to the stage, Alina has performed many roles in opera and musical theater including Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Hänsel in Hänsel and Gretel, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, Enid Hoopes in Legally Blonde, and Madame Kirsten in Captain Lovelock. She also performed in the shepherd’s chorus for Opera Today’s recent production of Amahl and the Night Visitors. In addition to her role in Dido and Aeneas, Alina is currently preparing to portray Dinah in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti with PFW’s Opera Ensemble on November 20 and 21. Alina would like to thank her family and friends for always supporting her musical endeavors.