Lisa Hopkins Seegmiller

Seegmiller was born Lisa Hopkins in Simi Valley, California, and grew up in various places throughout the United States and Canada from Los Angeles to Manhattan, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Utah.

[5] Between her junior and senior years at Yale, Seegmiller took a break to perform on tour as a soprano soloist in 21 multimedia spiritual concerts in Graz, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, and Vienna, Austria, while serving as a missionary for the LDS Church[2][6] She received her M.M.

In 2002–03, while Seegmiller completed her Master's Degree, she appeared on Broadway in Baz Luhrmann's production of La bohème in the leading role of Mimi,[7] sharing in a special ensemble Tony Award.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times noted, "The principals are, to a person, sexy, vital, utterly committed to the moment.... [At] the end of Act III... Jesús Garcia and Lisa Hopkins are affectingly somber... with resigned postures that suggest a haunted awareness of doom....

"[8] Seegmiller also appears on the production's cast album, singing the final act, and she sang excerpts from the role at the televised performance during the 2003 Tony Awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.

She was chosen to present a solo recital in March 2005, on the Marilyn Horne Foundation roster, at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City as part of the "On Wings of Song" series.

Newsday wrote, "The only member of the cast to escape the director's unmusical ministrations was Lisa Hopkins, who, as Donna Anna, managed to ignore the squeezebox screeches coming from the pit and speakers and deliver a sensitive lament.

"[13] Seegmiller was also selected as a Wolf Trap Opera Company Filene Young Artist,[14] singing the role of Corvina in John Musto's adaptation of Volpone (June, 2007) and the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte (August, 2007).

The review in The Salt Lake Tribune commented that in the show's signature song, "Memory", she "creates a moment that's beautifully painful ... and melancholy with a glimmer of hope.

[28] The following year, she played The Narrator in Tuacahn's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, "exuding a warmth and beauty in her stage presence".