Bridgid Eversole

Concert soprano praised by The Washington Post as "stunning" — and noted for "singing with intelligence and skill, floating even her highest notes effortlessly." Has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Constitution Hall, created world-premiere operatic roles, and taught voice at the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music. Voice faculty at the University of Virginia and James Madison University. Director of Education at Charlottesville Opera, where her Sing Me a Story program has drawn nearly 1,000 students to the Paramount Theater. Also leads the Movers and Shakers, a choir aimed at preserving speech for people living with Parkinson’s in Charlottesville. Grew up watching caregiving up close — lived with her grandmother during her final months, watched her parents take in her grandfather, and saw her mother Brenda, a pastoral minister to the sick and dying, care for a neglected aunt nearby. The youngest of five siblings, when it was her own parents’ turn to need help — her father with Parkinson’s disease, her mother with dementia — stepping in wasn’t a question. Writes about the emotional reality of caregiving with the honesty that only someone living it can bring.