A native of
Berkeley, California, she studied at the
San Francisco Conservatory and the
Juilliard School and trained with the
Lyric Opera of Chicago's Young Artists programme, appearing in the LOC company premiere of
Corigliano's
The Ghosts of Versailles in 1990. She went on to sing Woglinde in
Das Rheingold (
New Orleans Opera), Antonia in ''
Les contes d'Hoffmann (Opera Lirico de Costa Rica), Liù in Turandot (Guatemala City) and Marguerite in Faust'' (Augusta Opera). Rodin first came to international attention when appeared in the 1996-97 Broadway performances of
Terrence McNally's
Master Class, where she sang "Vieni t'affretta" from Verdi's
Macbeth. She made her European début as Micaela in
Carmen at the
Opéra Comique in Paris in February 1999. In 2007, she appeared at the
Utah Festival Opera as Clara in
Porgy and Bess and with West Bay Opera as Liza in
The Queen of Spades. As a member of the
Linz Landestheater opera company during the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 seasons, she has sung the title role in
Shostakovich's
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Countess Almaviva in
Le nozze di Figaro, Giulietta in ''Les contes d'Hoffmann'' and First Soprano in
Philip Glass' opera
Kepler, as well as singing with the company for the opera's North American premiere at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her appearances on the concert stage have included those at
Sarasota Opera and the
Kyoto International Music Festival. ==Recordings==