Biography

Grace Lauther is a mezzo-soprano from Naples, Florida.

This 2025-2026 season, Grace returned to her native Southwest Florida with multiple engagements throughout Florida. She is currently an Emerging Artist with Gulfshore Opera, covering the role of Mercédès and performing as Manuelita and in the Ensemble in their regional touring production of Carmen. This April, Grace has also been selected as one of five artists in Gulfshore Opera’s Professional Artist Workshop, where she will be engaging in a week-long intensive course refining her audition repertoire and career strategies.

This May, she will making her house debut with Salt Marsh Opera in Connecticut performing as Tisbe in an English-language adaptation La Cenerentola, touring across Connecticut and having one public performance in Westerly, Rhode Island. She will be returning to the company this October as the Third Wood Nymph in Rusalka.

In January 2026, Grace made her solo debut as the Page in Rigoletto with Vero Beach Opera in her fourth year with the company. She returned to Vero Beach in March to cover the role of Lola in Cavalleria rusticana.

In January and February, Grace joined Opera Naples’ Resident Artists to play the role of Jack in the John Davies children’s opera Jack and the Beanstalk, which toured to 15 schools across Collier County. She was also involved in the choruses for Turandot and L’elisir d’amore in Opera Naples’ Festival Under the Stars series in March.

She recently graduated with her Masters in Voice Performance from Eastman School of Music in May 2025. With Eastman, she performed the roles of Madame de Croissy in Dialogues des Carmélites as well as Federico García Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar. She received her Bachelors of Music in Voice Performance from Stetson University.

In summer of 2025, she performed as Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos with Dramatic Voices Program Berlin. She also had the pleasure of performing as Cherubino and Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro in Keystone Opera’s summer program.

Other notable roles include the title role in Dido and Aeneas, Lapák/Owl in The Cunning Little Vixen, Zita in Gianni Schicchi, Cinderella’s Stepmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and Emma Jones (cover) in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene.

Past summer programs include Songfest at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, FIO-Italia in Urbania, Italy, Keystone Opera in York, PA, and Opera Naples’ Summer Youth Program.

When Grace is not singing, she likes running, hiking, graphic design, nature photography, and creative writing.