“A crystalline lyric soprano and a superb singing actress” (Seen and Heard International), Amber R. Monroe’s current season includes company debuts with Chattanooga Symphony and Opera singing Mimì in La bohème and Opera Birmingham singing Nedda in Pagliacci, which she also sings for her return to Glimmerglass. Additionally, she joins the Arlington Chorale for Vivaldi’s Gloria and Margaret Bonds’ The Ballad of the Brown King, and Lehigh University for Ein deutsches Requiem. Other recent credits include Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni/Opera Columbus), Nedda (Pagliacci/El Paso Opera), Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro/Kentucky Opera), and Clara (Porgy and Bess/Opera Western Reserve). She was a featured soloist with the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Maryland for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and the Capital City Symphony for Knoxville: Summer of 1915.
Ms. Monroe is a recent alumna of the Cafritz Young Artists Program at Washington National Opera, debuting as Ines in Il trovatore, followed by Isabelle in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson and Mimì in La bohème. Other apprenticeships include Santa Fe Opera, the Merola Opera Program, and The Glimmerglass Festival.
