Sittercity Sings! ~ The Singers

Genevieve Thiers, a graduate of Boston College, Oxford University, and Northwestern University, has played lead roles in operas, operettas and Shakespeare plays including Constance in Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites, Patience in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, Despina in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, and Dorine in Kirke Mechem's Tartuffe. She has sung with the Longwood Opera Company, Chrysalis Opera, and OperaModa and has received several vocal awards, including the North Shore Musicians Club Scholarship, the Latetia M. Blain soloist award, and the Philadelphia Naval award for singing. Genevieve is the founder and CEO of Sittercity, Inc, a national childcare corporation serving over 100,000 users in 20 cities nationally. She has interviewed about Sittercity.com with TIME, Bloomberg, CNN, E! Entertainment Network, Crain's Chicago Business, Newsday, WGN, WBEZ, WNUR, the Boston Herald, the Chicago Sun-Times, and many other media outlets. More information about Genevieve is available at her Web site, genevievethiers.com.

Described as "on the verge of becoming an opera star" (EagleHerald), Brenda Bushera lights the stage as a "talented and gracious young woman" (Peshtigo Times). Originally from Wausaukee, WI, Brenda began her professional career as Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Chicago Cultural Center. In 2004 she received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, where she studied with Sunny Joy Langton and Sherrill Milnes, adding to her degrees in Music Theatre and Human Resources from Viterbo University. She has been seen as Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe, Alice in Falstaff (sung in Italian), Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, as a soloist with the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, at Viterbo in the Messiah, Elijah and Holst's Planets, and as a concert series performer with Classical International Performers in the Chicago area. A member of the Wisconsin 132nd Army National Guard Band, Sgt. Bushera serves as a part-time saxophonist and vocalist. More information about Brenda, whose "graceful movements and gestures, combined with a beautiful voice, gave a depth of understanding...to a community who has opened their hearts to her," (Peshtigo Times) is available at her Web site, brendabushera.com.