[email protected] Briana Elyse Hunter www.brianahunter.info Mezzo-soprano (610) 256-2587
Roles Prince Orlovsky Die Fledermaus Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2020 Mother Blue Glimmerglass Opera 2019 Mayme Intimate Apparel (Workshop) Met/Lincoln Center Theater 2019 Ottavia L’incoronazione di Poppea Bare Opera 2018 Dolores “Dee Dee” Reyes The Last American Hammer UrbanArias 2018 Flora La traviata Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2018 Pvt. Stanton An American Soldier Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2018 Orfeo* Orfeo and Euridice Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2018 Gertrude Stein 27 Michigan Opera Theatre 2018 Giovanna Rigoletto Michigan Opera Theatre 2017 Arsamenes* Xerxes The Glimmerglass Festival 2017 Annie Porgy and Bess The Glimmerglass Festival 2017 Wowkle La fanciulla del West Michigan Opera Theatre 2017 Jo Little Women Michigan Opera Theatre 2017 Madeleine Audebert Silent Night Michigan Opera Theatre 2016 Mercédès Carmen Michigan Opera Theatre 2016 Ruggiero Alcina Santa Fe Opera (scenes) 2016 Mercédès Carmen El Paso Opera 2016 Lucinda* Cold Mountain Santa Fe Opera 2015 L’écureuil/La chatte L’enfant et les sortilèges Bare Opera 2015 Carmen La tragédie de Carmen Opera in the Heights 2015 Mercédès Carmen Knoxville Opera 2015 Carmen Carmen Music Academy of the West 2014 Rachel Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed American Opera Projects, Brooklyn 2014
Competitions Metropolitan Opera National Council Regionals Mid-Atlantic Kennedy Center, D.C. 2016 Lys Symonette Award Lotte Lenya Competition Kurt Weill Foundation 2014
Concerts Beethoven’s 9th Sym. Musicians Take a Stand Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI 2017 Recital of Hao Jiang Tian I SING BEIJING Carnegie Hall 2013
Training Studio Artist Michigan Opera Theatre 2016-present Young Artist The Glimmerglass Festival 2017 Apprentice Artist Santa Fe Opera 2015 & 2016 Vocal Fellow Music Academy of the West 2014 Apprentice Artist Sarasota Opera 2013 Program Participant I SING BEIJING 2012
Education Manhattan School of Music ; Master of Music in Vocal Performance 2012 Davidson College; Bachelor of Arts in Theater and French 2008
Teachers: Hilda Harris, Neil Semer (current) Coaches: John Fisher, Marilyn Horne, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Richard Leech, Glenn Morton, Michel Sénéchal Directors: Lawrence Edelson, Jay Lesenger, Kristine McIntyre, David Paul, Patricia Racette, Dona D. Vaughn, Francesca Zambello Conductors: Michael Christie, Joseph Colaneri, John DeMain, James Gaffigan, Stephen Lord, Paul Nadler, Robert Tweten *cover