Previous BSO appearances: Rigoletto cover in Rigoletto, Summer Sounds at Bellforge

Baritone Dylan Evans is an international artist who has performed all over the United States and Canada. Originally from Delray Beach, Florida, Dylan is now a Boston-based performer, where he studied vocal performance at the New England Conservatory.

This year, Mr. Evans was a finalist in the 2nd Annual National Oratorio Competition at the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, FL, and with Wellesley Hills Congregational, performed the famous Bach Cantata 82, Ich habe genug. He also looks forward to debuting the role of Figaro in Boston Summer Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Dylan made his professional opera debut with New York Lyric Opera as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Tanglewood Opera Studio. Other operatic credits include Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), Sid (Albert Herring), King Melchior (Amahl & the Night Visitors), Peter (Hansel & Gretel), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Marco (Gianni Schicchi), Motorcycle Cop/Guard 1 (Dead Man Walking), and Don Giovanni.

Dylan’s solo concert engagements range from performing large works such as Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Duruflé’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mozart’s Requiem. Other accolades include being an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera and the proud recipient of the Randolph A. Frank Prize for Emerging Performing Artists.

dylanevansmusic.net | @dylanevansmusic

Previous BSO appearances: Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance

Leo Balkovetz is a tenor and librettist residing in Boston. On stage, Leo sings with a number of local groups including Boston Lyric Opera, Lowell House Opera, MassOpera, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Nonconformists Orchestra. This is his 2nd Season with Boston Summer Opera.

Off stage, he received a 2022 Live Arts Boston Grant to write the libretto for "Violetta" a modern, queer retelling of "La Traviata" and was a FUSE collaborative poet for Rachel Devore Fogarty's "Poor Katy: A Murder Ballad", premiered by Catalyst New Music in 2024.

leobalkovetz.com | @yaboileonidas

Previous BSO appearances: Giovanna and Maddalena cover in Rigoletto

Alesandra Onjiko, mezzo-soprano, is a dynamic and versatile performer based in Boston. She earned her Master of Music in Voice Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. Most recently, she portrayed Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus with The Opera Company, a role she also performed with NEC Opera. Other stage credits include Edimione in La Calisto (NEC Opera), The Mother and The Witch in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (NEC Outreach Opera), Giulio Cesare in Giulio Cesare (Stetson Opera Theater), and both Second and Third Lady in The Magic Flute with Stetson Opera Theater and the Miami Music Festival. In addition to her operatic work, she regularly performs in concerts throughout the Boston area.

Previous BSO appearances: Sparafucile in Rigoletto

Austin Martin is thrilled to make his return to Boston Summer Opera, after previously appearing in last year's production of Rigoletto as Sparafucile. He has recently appeared as a Supreme Court Justice in Of Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake (Odyssey Opera), Frank in Die Fledermaus (Bar Harbor Music Festival), as well as the male voices in the American concert premier of The Hunters and the Hunted (Kunsht/Birch Tree Productions). Austin earned his M.M. in Opera Performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he studied voice with David Small and Victor Jannett, and his B.M. in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University, where he studied voice with William Christensen. He is a native of Tyler, Texas.

Previous BSO appearances: Chief of Police in The Pirates of Penzance, Sparafucile cover in Rigoletto, Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni

Johan Hartman is a professional bass-baritone, teacher, and composer. He holds an MM in vocal performance from CCM and a BM from New England Conservatory. He has worked with numerous professional opera companies, most recently performing the role of Colline in Florida l'opera and Zarzuela's production of La Bohème and the role of Uberto in Mostly Baroque's production of La Serva Padrona. He has also worked as a young artist at Sarasota Opera in Sarasota Florida under the tutelage of Maestro DeRenzi.

His list of operatic roles is extensive. Recent performances include Gus in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening, Pascual in Arietta’s Marina, and the Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He has also appeared in other Mozart works—portraying Leporello in Don Giovanni and Sarastro in The Magic Flute—as well as roles in the operas of Richard Strauss, such as Truffaldin in Ariadne auf Naxos. His experience spans from some of the earliest operas ever composed—such as Seneca in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea—to contemporary premieres, including The Hunter in Timothy Ayres-Kerr’s Game of Werewolf.

As a composer, he has written three song-cycles, Blood and the Moon, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, and Love and Death, which are settings of poetry by W.B. Yeats, Robert Browning, and Lord Byron respectively. He also set part one of Yeats’ epic poem, The Wanderings of Oisin. Most recently he has written a one-act chamber opera entitled The Signal Man, with a libretto based on Charles Dickens’ short-story of the same name.

Previous BSO appearances: Zerlina in Don Giovanni

Logan Trotter is a versatile classical soprano praised for her expressive musicianship and compelling performances across opera and oratorio. She made her solo debut with the Handel and Haydn Society in December 2025, appearing in Bach’s BWV 63, and will join Upper Valley Baroque for the first time in March 2026.

Logan has appeared in a wide range of operatic productions, including Iphigénie en Tauride with Boston Baroque (2023) and Le nozze di Figaro with the Handel and Haydn Society (2022). Her operatic roles include Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Boston Summer Opera (2024) and North Carolina Summer Opera (2019), Elisa in Il re pastore with New England Conservatory Opera (2021), and Morgana (cover) with MassOpera (2025).

In addition to her solo work, Logan is a highly sought-after choral soprano, regularly performing with leading ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Odyssey Opera, and the Marsh Chapel Choir. She was a semi-finalist in the 2024 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition and holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

logantrotter.com | @logantrottersoprano