Ms. Klein Rensi most recently reprised the role of the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors at Binghamton University after performing with Maestro Fitzroy Stewart and Basically Bach Ensemble singing Mozart’s Missa Solemnis in C, and Bach’s Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. This past December, she returned for her seventh annual performance of Handel's Messiah, with Binghamton Downtown Singers and made her Pittsburgh debut performing in Christmas Through the Ages, a concert of holiday favorites, at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Ms Klein Rensi has recently been a Young Artist with Opera Saratoga (Lake George Opera) singing Flora Bervoix in their production of La Traviata. She
is also a graduate of the Resident Artist Trainin
g Program with
Tri-Cities Opera and is honored to have performed over 20 roles on their
stage both as a resident artist and as a mainstage artist. Ms.
Klein Rensi has been a touring artist with Opera Saratoga, Natchez
Festival of Music and Tri-Cities Opera, and she debuted at Spoleto
Festival USA performing the role of Girl Four in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.
Ms. Klein Rensi’s operatic repertoire embraces a wide range of roles including Dorabella in Così fan Tutte, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, La Marquise in La Fille du Régiment, Mercedes in Carmen, and Maddalena in Rigoletto. She has also performed Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Mrs. Nolan in The Medium and the Mother in the world premiere of Brooke Joyce’s An Imaginary Line. She is, perhaps, best known for her “pants” roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Nicklausse in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Stephano in Roméo et Juliette, Hansel in Hansel & Gretel, and Siebel in Faust.
Called to light the opera spark in young children and cultivate new audiences, Ms. Klein Rensi has made performing Opera Outreach a career priority. She performed her first children's opera with Tri-Cities Opera as Hansel in an abridged version of Hansel & Gretel. Since then, has sung Cherubino in The Three Little Pigs with Opera Saratoga (formerly Lake George Opera), the Grandmother and Mother in John Davies’ Little Red Riding Hood with Natchez Festival of Music and hundreds of Broadway and Opera selection concerts in schools across the country. As a great appreciator of 21st Century Music, she has performed Betty in Christian McLeer's contemporary children's opera House and also the role of Patricia in his children's opera G-Train.
In addition to her many solo concerts, she has been a featured soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Meine Seel’ Erhebt Den Herren, Handel’s Messiah, Bach's Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Haydn’s St. Nicolai Mass, Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor, Bach’s Bereitet die
Wege, bereitet die Bahn, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Bach’s Christ lag in Todesbanden, Mozart’s Litany in E-Flat Major, John Rutter’s Requiem, Bach’s Erschallet, Ihr Lieder, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Bach’s Easter Oratorio, Mozart’s Litany in B-Flat Major and Serenade to Music by Vaughn Williams.
She received a Master of Music Degree in Operatic Performance with Tri-Cities Opera and Binghamton University and completed her Bachelor Degree in Vocal Performance at Cleveland Institute of Music. Hilerie is the recipient of numerous awards. As an alumna of Interlochen Arts Academy and Interlochen Arts Camp, Hilerie continues to be the only woman in it's 83 year history to perform four consecutive lead operetta roles and was honored with the “Best Female Principle Over 25 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas” Award.
This March, Ms. Klein Rensi reunites with Maestro Stewart and the Basically Back Ensemble to sing Bach’s Man Singet mit Freuden vom Sieg and Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C. while touring her cabaret Alto on the Loose around New York State with dates currently being booked in New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan. This April and May, Ms. Klein Rensi will be singing Peep-Bo in The Mikado, and performing and making her directorial debut in The Romantic Music of Natchez and the children’s opera The Three Little Pigs at Natchez Festival of Music.
When not on the stage, Ms. Klein Rensi resides in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and two sons, while teaching private voice lessons and inspiring new young artists to pursue their musical ambitions.
