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Japanese American soprano Elaina Robbins performs nationally and teaches at the Purdue School of Music. With appearances at Arbor Opera Theater, the Comic Opera Guild, Heartland Sings, the Bach Collegium, and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, among others, Elaina has performed in operas, operettas, musical theatre reviews, recitals, and as an oratorio soloist. Her operatic roles include Le feu and Le rossignol in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, Erste Knabe in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Cleopatra in Victor Herbert’s The Wizard of the Nile. A frequent oratorio soloist, she has been featured in works such as Schubert’s Mass in C, Mozart’s Requiem, and Hayden’s Theresienmesse.

For over three years, she was the principal soprano at Heartland Sings, a vocal production company located in Fort Wayne, IN. She performed pop, jazz, a cappella, and other small ensemble compositions, along with soprano solos in masses, choral works, and opera and musical theater scenes. She has sung with internationally acclaimed artists, including Broadway’s J. Mark McVey and renowned Swedish a cappella ensemble The Real Group.

Elaina has a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Arts from the University of Southern California. A passionate voice teacher whose students have lauded her “outstanding vocal skills and understandable teaching methods,” she joined the vocal faculty of the Purdue School of Music in 2018. She also started an Opera on Tap chapter in Fort Wayne in 2020.