operatic and concert roles. Her previous roles with CCOO include Melpomene (Gluck's Il
Parnaso confuso) and Sophie Scholl (Zimmermann's Weisse Rose). She has appeared as soloist
with several orchestras and ensembles in New York and Connecticut in works including
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, Mozart's Masses K.220 and K.212, Schubert's Mass in G,
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, and John Harbison's Mirabai Songs. In Los Angeles, she
appeared as a soloist under the batons of Pierre Boulez and Christopher Hogwood. In New
York she performed the roles of Hero (Beatrice et Benedict), Emilie, Phani and Zaire
(Rameau's Les Indes Galantes), Arminda (La Finta Giardiniera) and Despina (Cosi fan
tutte) as well as the US premeires of Siegfried Matthus' Cornet Christoph Rilke's Song of
Love and Death and Alexander Goehr's Triptych. She appeared Off-Off-Broadway in the
world premiere of John Grace Ranter by Michael Sahl. Ms Schaffer received her Bachelor
of Arts from UCLA and a Masters of Music from Manhattan School of Music. A Bay-Area
native, she is currently a tenured member of the San Francisco Opera Chorus. With the
San Francisco Opera, In addition to covering several solo roles, she made her debut as a
soloist as Madeleine in Louise, and she also has been heard as soloist in Jenufa and most
recently in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
