A member of the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richardson performed the roles of Flower Maiden in Parsifal and Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, as well as covering the role of Mary Jane Bowser in Intelligence, during HGO’s 2023-24 season. During the 2022-23, she performed the roles of Annina in La traviata and Woman Whose Uncle Loved Maria Callas in Another City. Richardson holds an Artist Diploma from The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she sang Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s Rusalka, the title role and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Inès in Donizetti’s La favorite. While at the the Cleveland Institute of Music, her roles included Béatrice in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Cherubini’s Medea. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spiritual and a finalist in the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competition in Naples, Italy. In 2023, she debuted Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Wolf Trap Opera, and returns in 2024 as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
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