Madelyn Deininger is a Hawaiian/Filipino American mezzo-soprano completing her MM at IU Jacobs School of Music with Professor Jane Dutton. At Baldwin Wallace University, she originated the role of the Stream in the new micro opera The Stream, composed by Michi Wiancko with a libretto by Sarah Labrie. In the fall of 2021, she performed as Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina, and as Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) in the spring of 2022. In summer of 2022, she was involved in the premiere of La Casa de Bernarda Alba, playing Amelia, and performed Juno in HPAF’s production of Orpheus in the Underworld. In the fall of 2022, she played Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. In June of 2024, she originated the role of Min-Ji in the premiere of “All of Us: an Anti Asian-Hate Opera” by Hippocrates Cheng at the Carmel Center for Performing Arts. At IU in the fall of this past year she performed La Zelatrice in Suor Angelica as well as a Typist in the IU/Metropolitan Opera collaborative premiere of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.