Soprano Beth Wallace made her operatic debut in Skagit Opera’s The Barber of Seville as Berta. She has since been in the chorus for Carmen.  Beth recently portrayed Maria in Northwest Civic Light Opera’s production of The Sound of Music.  She played Anna Leonowens in The King and I for Northwest Children’s Theatre  as well as numerous other musical theatre roles, including Jewel (Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), the Queen (Cinderella), the charwoman (A Christmas Carol), Ethel Toffelmeier (Music Man), and Isabel (Pirates of Penzance).  Among Ms. Wallace’s  leading dramatic roles are Lady Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, Mistress Page (Merry Wives of Windsor), Romaine (Witness for the Prosecution), and Margaret (Artichoke).  Other favorite principal roles include Queen Margaret (Richard III), Meg (Crimes of the Heart), and Georgeanne (Three Women Wearing the Same Dress). Ms. Wallace performed solo in the Obie-award-winning monologue play The Fever by Wallace Shawn, and in 2004 she starred in the independent film In the Garden Growing, which won Best Narrative Short and Grand Prize at the 2004 NW Projections Film Festival.  She co-produced and starred as First Lady Laura Bush in the Tony Kushner one-act play Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, which was performed at the 2004 Lincoln Theatre Human Rights Festival. She co-produced and narrated Letters from the War Zone, at the Lincoln Theatre.

Beth currently studies voice with Erich Parce and previously studied with Susan K. Johnson. Beth is a member of the Skagit Opera Board of Directors.