SARAN ERDENEBAT

Lyric soprano Saran Erdenebat, a native of the capital city Ulan Bator, graduated from the Mongolian University of Culture and Art. As soloist with the Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, Ms. Erdenebat portrayed Cio-Cio San in "Madama Butterfly" (see photo above), Bess in "Porgy and Bess," Frasquita in "Carmen," Anne in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Kate Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly," Annina in "La Traviata," Tserenlkham in "Tears of the Lama," Uyanga in "Cuckoo Namjil," Khadaan in "Chingis Khan" and Nansalmaa in "Three Sad Hills." In the United States, she has also portrayed Mother in "Hansel and Gretel."

She gave a concert of operatic arias, other classical works and Mongolian songs at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on March 6, 2010, and has sung with orchestras around the world, including performances in China, Korea and Russia at the Bolshoi Theater. Ms. Erdenebat has won numerous singing competitions in her native Mongolia.

In addition, she has performed concerts at Radford University Pridemore Playhouse in Virginia, at Cohen Davidson Hall at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, at the First Amendment Lounge of The National Press Club, at the Embassy of Mongolia in Washington, D.C., at Virginia's Rosslyn Spectrum, at the Mongolian Studies Conference in Chicago, at the Mongolian Art and Culture Workers Forum in Washington, D.C., at State Theatre in Washington, D.C., at Christian Heritage Academy Theatre in Chicago, and at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, Maryland. She has also performed at local opera nights with Washington Opera Company tenor Michael Blaney and pianist Bob Boguslaw.

She is continuing her studies for a GPD in Voice at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.