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Congratulations
to the Summer 2026 staff, cast, and crew of
A special shout out goes to Amelia Fe Camacho Voice Studio Singer
Barbara Myerson Katz
in Cinderella
Barbara Myerson Katz has been performing in community and professional musical theater since she was a teenager. She is delighted to join Charlottesville Opera in the chorus of Cinderella for her third season after singing in their recent productions of Guys and Dolls (Agatha/Chorus) and The Music Man (Chorus).
Barb performed with La Salle Music Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, and the Philadelphia Drama Guild in her native Philadelphia, and for six seasons with Music Theatre Louisville, and 16 seasons with CenterStage, in Louisville, Kentucky where she and her husband lived, raised their family, and worked for 41 years.
Favorite credits include Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), Brigadoon (Meg), Camelot (Guenevere), Noel Coward’s Bitter Sweet(Sari Linden), The Mikado (Yum-Yum), Cabaret (Fraulein Kost), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Fairy Godmother), The Music Man (Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn), Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Stepmother), My Fair Lady (Mrs. Higgins), La Cage aux Folles (Marie Dindon), Oklahoma! (Aunt Eller), A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Oliver!(Mrs. Sowerberry), and Fiddler on the Roof (Yente). She has also been a featured soloist in choral groups in Boston and New York.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Barb worked in audience research and program development for the producers of Sesame Street, where she was also on the team that created the PBS children’s science series, 3-2-1 Contact. Her work for Kentucky Educational Television was a Regional Emmy Award nominee, and she worked with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on the development of video programming for students in the Detroit Public Schools. For more than 20 years, Barb was also a contributing writer for Louisville Magazine, for which she received 13 Louisville Metro Journalism Awards, including six first place awards, from the Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2022, Barb and her husband, David, a retired pediatrician, moved to Charlottesville, where they live around the corner from their son, daughter-in-law, and two young granddaughters. They also exchange frequent visits with their daughter and daughter-in-law who live in San Diego, and love to travel, bicycle, and take long walks.
Big thanks to Amelia for her superb instruction and support, to her family for always cheering her on, and to Leanne Clement, Caroline Worra and Michael Slon for the opportunity to keep singing!
About Amelia
I’m Amelia Camacho, and I’ve spent 25 years helping individuals and communities find their voices, both in music and in life. My mission is to empower my students to sing and speak with confidence, unlocking the joy and freedom that comes from authentic self-expression. Whether through private lessons, leading congregations, teaching workshops, or coaching performers, my goal is to build confidence in healthy singing and speaking while fostering the joy and freedom that comes from self-expression in all styles of music.
Meet more of our Studio Singers
Samantha Cadieux
in Fiddler on the Roof at Waynesboro Players, Fall 2025
Samantha Cadieux is excited to return to Waynesboro Players this fall as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof. You may recognize her from last fall’s Waynesboro Players production of Into the Woods (Cinderella), and she is grateful to be part of its welcoming community.
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Samantha has performed with Four County Players in The SpongeBob Musical (Sandy the Squirrel), Anything Goes (Reporter/Old Lady), A Christmas Carol (Belle/Topper), Cinderella (Ensemble), and Elf (Jovie), as well as with ShenanArts in Frozen (Anna), The Sound of Music (Elsa Schraeder) and Oliver! (Nancy). A 2021 graduate of James Madison University, Samantha holds a B.A. in Theatre. Her professional credits include The Music Man with Charlottesville Opera and Parfumerie with Silverline Exchange.
Summer 2025
Ingrid Flaherty
in Carmen
Ingrid Flaherty was delighted to make her Charlottesville Opera debut this summer in the chorus of Carmen. A recent graduate of Monticello High School, she sang with the Monticello Choirs, performed as a vocal soloist with the school’s Jazz Band and Orchestra, played saxophone with the Jazz and Steel Bands, and appeared in school productions of Cry-Baby (2023) and High School Musical (2024).
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Ingrid was selected for All-Virginia Chorus throughout high school and participated in both the VMEA Senior Honor Choir and the ACDA National Honor Choir during her senior year. This past winter, she received high marks in the Virginia level of the NATS National Student Auditions and advanced to the regional level. In 2024, she was a voice student at the Virginia Summer Governor’s School for Visual and Performing Arts at Radford University.
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An active musician beyond school, Ingrid sings with the University Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir and youth choir, Voces Laetae. She is also a member of the Oratorio Society of Virginia and recently sang in their performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia.
Equally passionate about conducting, Ingrid has had opportunities to direct both the Monticello and University Baptist Church choirs, and most recently conducted Monticello’s 2025 production of Chicago. This fall, she will attend the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University to pursue a Bachelor of Music, with focused study in vocal performance, conducting, and Classics.
George Cohen
in The Pirates of Penzance
George Cohen was thrilled to return to the stage following a long hiatus, having recently appeared as Chester in The Phantom of the Opry (2024) and Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest (2023) with Black Box Theater.
While in law and graduate school, he performed in numerous Gilbert and Sullivan productions with the University of Pennsylvania Law School Light Opera Company, with favorite roles including Major Murgatroyd in Patience, the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance, Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore, King Gama in Princess Ida, and Ko-ko in The Mikado.
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As an undergraduate at Yale, George performed in Fiddler on the Roof (Avram), 1776 (Roger Sherman), The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd (Urchin), and Spring Awakening (Georg) at the Yale Repertory Theatre. His stage journey began as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!— directed by Carole King’s mother.
A professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, George has maintained a lifelong love of singing. He serves as a High Holidays cantor and has often performed as King Achashverosh in the Purim Spiels at Congregation Beth Israel. He also plays clarinet with the Albemarle County Concert Band.
