Praised internationally for her expressiveness and strong, secure voice, Rebecca Hains is a versatile performer whose past on-stage engagements include Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), Maria (The Sound of Music), and Cunegonde (Candide). This season's highlights included her portrayal of Marion (The Music Man, New World Chorale) and her performance of Gabriel Fauré's motet for soprano, "Pie Jesu" (Requiem, First Congregational Church of Harvard). Upcoming engagements include a solo recital of songs by George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein and a role in a new opera, Rough-Face Girl, with Mass Theatrica. An alumna of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Rebecca frequently appears as a soloist in regional musical theater and opera concerts, including the concert series of the First Parish of Lexington, Longwood Opera, Mass Theatrica, the New England Gilbert and Sullivan Society, New England Light Opera, and Worcester Opera Works.