Hilerie Klein Rensi has been praised as "a mellifluous mezzo…an incisive way with words." (Cleveland Plain Dealer) "Her full voice bloomed ardently and lushly." (The Ithaca Journal) "Some would say the night belonged to mezzo Hilerie Klein Rensi, who won the audience over...with good singing and loads of personality." "The show was nearly stolen by Hilerie Klein-Rensi. In addition to top-notch singing...her acting followed suit. She was a delight to watch." (Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin)
Ms. Klein Rensi has most recently returned from her second season with the Natchez Festival of Music, reuniting with composer Christian McLeer, performing the role of Betty in his newly revised childeren's opera House and covering the role of Mercedes in the Festival's new production of Carmen. Last summer, she sang Flora Bervoix in Lake George Opera's production of La Traviata as a member of their Young Artist Program, and also debuted with natchez Festival of Music, performing the role of Patricia in the contemporary childeren's opera G-Train by Christian McLeer. Ms. Klein Rensi is a graduate of the Resident Artist Training Program with Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York, and is honored to perform 20 roles on their stage both as a resident artist and as a mainstage artist. Ms. Klein Rensi has been a touring artist with Lake George Opera and Tri-Cities Opera, and in 2007, 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 the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Mrs. Nolan in The Medium and the Mother in the world premier 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.
As an accomplished concert artist and recitalist, Ms. Klein Rensi has been a featured soloist with The Binghamton Downtown Singers, The Binghamton University Orchestra, The Broome Community College Choir, The Traverse Symphony Orchestra, the Finger Lake Regional Orchestra, and The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. In addition to her many solo concerts, she has also performed in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, John Rutter’s Requiem, Serenade to Music by Vaughn Williams, and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott by Bach. This past April, she was the alto soloist in Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor and Bach's Easter Oratorio under the baton of Fitzroy Stewart. This November, Ms. Klein Rensi will be reuniting Maestro Stewart to sing Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor and Bach's Contada BWV132, and in March she will be returning to sing Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Orchestra of The Southern Finger Lakes. This January, she has also been asked to perform a recital of Opera and Broadway highlights as part of the Tioga County Council of the Arts Master Series.
Hilerie is the recipient of numerous awards including The Stuart & Jeanne Wilson Scholarship, The George L. Hinman Award, The Boris Goldovsky Award for Outstanding Operatic Performance and she is the three time winner of The Tri-Cities Opera Guild Scholarship. She received a Masters of Music Degree in Operatic Performance with Tri- Cities Opera and Binghamton University and completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music. As an alumna of Interlochen Arts Academy and Interlochen Arts Camp, Hilerie continues to be the only woman in the history of Interlochen Center for the Arts to perform four consecutive lead operetta roles and was also honored with the “Best Female Principle Over 25 Years of Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas” Award. When not on the stage, Ms. Klein Rensi resides in Binghamton, New York with her husband and two sons, while teaching private voice lessons and inspiring new young artists to pursue their musical ambitions.
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| Title | Opera | Composer | ||
 | Svegliatevi nel core | Giulio Cesare | George F. Handel | |
| Nobles Seigneurs | Les Huguenots | Giacomo Meyerbeer | |
| Things Change Jo | Little Women | Mark Adamo | |
| What A Movie | Trouble in Tahiti | Leonard Bernstein |
