Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai, mezzo-soprano, sings the role of Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, following her West Bay Opera debut as Polina in The Queen of Spades.

Ms. Shehabi-Yaghmai sang the roles of Mrs. Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor) with Bear Valley Music Festival, Hansel (Hansel and Gretel) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Eldorado Opera, and made her European debut in Romania singing the title role in Carmen. She sang Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) with San Francisco Lyric Opera, Vera Boronel (The Consul) with North Bay Opera, Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors) with Solo Opera, and the title roles in Iolanthe with the Lamplighters and La Périchole with Pocket Opera. Other roles include Poppea, Dorabella, Cherubino, Nancy (Albert Herring), and Dinah (Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti).

Ms. Shehabi-Yaghmai has been a soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Haydn’s Mass for Prince Nicolai, and Bach’s Magnificat. She performed Mahler’s Songs of the Wayfarer as the winner of the CSUN annual concerto competition, and Cliff Eidelman’s Wedding in the Night Garden at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. She is Persian.