Soprano Rebecca Hains

Praised internationally for her expressiveness and strong, secure voice, Rebecca Hains is versatile performer whose engagements have included stage roles such as Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance, International G&S Festival), Phyllis (Iolanthe, International G&S Festival), Marion (The Music Man, Claflin Hill Symphony), and The Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute, Mass Opera). An alumna of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Rebecca received her musical training at Emmanuel College in Boston, where she studied communication and music.

As a concert soloist, Rebecca's performances have included Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the New World Chorale, Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate with the Concord Ensemble, and Vivaldi’s Beatus Vir with the Nashua Symphony Orchestra. Additional highlights have included concerts with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra (Gilbert & Sullivan arias in the Passport to England concert); the Longwood Symphony at Jordan Hall (performing music from The Lord of the Rings); Gabriel Faure's motet for soprano, "Pie Jesu" (Requiem, First Congregational Church of Harvard); and many performances with the Paul Madore Chorale, including Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Orff’s Carmina Burana. She has also often performed Handel's Messiah in the northeast and mid-Atlantic.

Rebecca has appeared as a soloist in regional musical theater and opera concerts, including the concert series of Longwood Opera, Mass Theatrica, the New England Gilbert and Sullivan Society, New England Light Opera, and Greater Worcester Opera. She has also presented solo recitals at venues including the First Parish of Lexington concert series; the Salem Arts Festival; the Newton Free Library; the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Gettysburg, PA; and the Peabody Institute Library.

A professor of media and communication at Salem State University and a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar, Rebecca is a frequent soloist at the First Church in Salem, Unitarian Universalist.