Soprano Megan Radder, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has performed the roles of Lisette in La Rondine, La Fée in Cendrillon, Gilda in Rigoletto, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel , Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Adina in  L'elisir d'amore, the Shepherd Boy in Tosca, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Cupid in Orpheus in the Underworld, Cis in Albert Herring, and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro.  Ms. Radder has been a young artist at both Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Opera North.  During OTSL’s 2008 summer season, Megan covered the role of Ghita in Una Cosa Rara.  In 2009, she returned to OTSL to sing a Gossip in The Ghosts of Versailles and a Slave in Salome. In addition to her mainstage roles, she covered the role of Aminta in Il Re Pastore.  Other professional performance credits include a reprisal of a Gossip at the Wexford Festival in Ireland in 2009; serving as Artist in Residence with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis during the fall of 2008; a recital with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee; donor events with the Indianapolis Opera and Cleveland Orchestra; and the cover of Belinda at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Megan is a doctoral student at Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music, and she earned her bachelor of music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.