California mezzo-soprano Lily Bogas is in her final year at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she performed Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina and Dorothèe in Massenet’s Cendrillon. She attended the Aspen Music Festival in 2025, where she covered the role of Dharuna in the world premiere of Siddhartha, She by Christopher Theofanidis. This past Summer, Lily returned to Colorado as a 2026 Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artist with Central City Opera. This past May, Lily made her Music of Remembrance debut covering the role of Sonia in the world premiere tour of The Dialogue of Memories by Tom Cipullo. Previous highlights include Anne in Jake Heggie’s To Hell and Back, and the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Eastman Opera Theatre. Lily is also a recipient of the 2025/26 Schmidt Vocal Arts Alumni Grant. In addition to her operatic career, Lily is the songwriter and co-founder of her jazz-pop group Seldon the Band, which has garnered over 100,000 streams on Spotify, and is slated to perform at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in the Fall of 2026.