lessons at the school. She was a student at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. In high school, she was an athlete, played varsity soccer, participated in many popular extra-curricular activities, and she often hid the fact that she was studying classical singing, because she "didn't think it was cool." Cambridge now lives in New York City, with her poodle-bichon named Lucy. University Cambridge attended university at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, where she earned a double degree with honors in both—a B.M. in Voice Performance and a B.A. in Sociology, with a concentration in pre-law. She decided in her senior year at Oberlin to pursue an operatic career full-time. She then continued her vocal studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, studying for a master's degree in Opera for one year. Opera career Cambridge began as a light lyric soprano, then developed into a full lyric soprano, and more recently begun to develop into a spinto soprano, a more powerful voice that can handle more dramatic climaxes. In 2003 Cambridge won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, while still a student at The Curtis Institute of Music, becoming the competition's youngest Grand Prize winner ever. The Grand Prize gained her entrance into the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, as well as $15,000 to further her education and career. That year she appeared in Washington for the first time as a professional, as Adina in L'elisir d'amore with the Wolf Trap Opera Company. The Washington Post wrote: Cambridge ... was radiant, vocally assured, dramatically subtle and compelling and artistically imaginative. Even amid a stage full of singing and dancing, she could sit off to the side reading quietly and be the most interesting person there. She was able to imbue long, pregnant pauses in her lines with the same intensity that accompanied her coloratura passages and, even when the chorus was most out of sync with the orchestra ... she was absolutely on the beat. In 2004 Cambridge made her Met debut as Frasquita in Georges Bizet's Carmen, and was noted by Anne Midgette of The New York Times for her "powerful, clear voice". She has since appeared in several roles with that company, including Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Karolka in Jenůfa, Crobyle in Thaïs, and Bianca in La Rondine. She also played Giulietta in The Tales of Hoffmann with