The lyric soprano Laura Albino’s operatic rôles include Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme in Aldeburgh, Mary Warren in Ward’s The Crucible with the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and Bridey in Queen of Puddings Music Theatre’s Production of The Midnight Court at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. She joined the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio in 2008, where she sang Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and The Cook in Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. She made her début with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Bach’s St John Passion, conducted by Helmuth Rilling. Her recordings include Israel in Egypt for Naxos (8.570966–67) and Handel’s Saul with the Bach Collegium, Stuttgart, for the Hänssler Classic label.