Soprano Diane Squires maintains a busy performance schedule in the Bay Area. She made her Solo Opera debut as Monica in The Medium and later appeared as Lucy in The Telephone and Laetitia in The Old Maid and The Theif. She appeared with Mission City Opera as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah and as Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte. Her past performances include Olympia in North Bay Opera’s Les Contes d’Hoffman, Frasquita in Bay Shore Lyric Opera’s Carmen and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Capitol Opera of Sacramento. She was a winner in the 2002 San Jose Opera Guild vocal competition and appeared as a guest artist with the SJSU Symphony as the Queen of the Night in a program of excerpts from The Magic Flute. In 2004 she created the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera II: Revenge of the Divas, for California Chamber Opera.

Ms. Squires began 2005 by making her Stockton Opera debut as the First Lady in The Magic Flute. In the spring of 2005, she will create the roles of the White Rabbit and Creature #1 in Mrs. Carrol’s Alice, a brand new chamber work. She will be returning to Calfornia Chamber Opera as Carolina in a new translation of Cimarosa’s The Secret Marriage, and will repeat the role of Christine in an expanded production of The Phantom of the Opera II. She will travel to Eugene in February as a semi-finalist in the Belle Voci Competition.

Ms. Squires students range from beginning level students to professional singers. Her students have received awards from NATS, and have gone onto professional acting and performing careers.