Anita Johnson - soprano

Career highlights include: Marie in THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT and Oscar in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA with Michigan Opera Theatre; Konstanze in DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL with Italy's Spoleto Festival; the Princess in L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES and Clara in PORGY AND BESS with New York City Opera; Giannetta in L'ELISIR D'AMORE, Javotte in MANON, and Barbarina in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with the Metropolitan Opera; Sophie in DER ROSENKAVALIER, Gretel in HÄNSEL UND GRETEL, Giulietta in I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI, Musetta in LA BOHÈME, Sophie in WERTHER, Servillia in LA CLEMENZA DI TITO, and Olympia in LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN as the resident lyric coloratura soprano with Germany's Nationaltheater Mannheim; Musetta in LA BOHÈME with Opera Pacific; Clara in PORGY AND BESS with Atlanta Opera; Zerbinetta in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS with New Orleans Opera and Opera North; Gilda in RIGOLETTO with Knoxville Opera and Milwaukee's Florentine Opera; Susanna in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and Norina in DON PASQUALE with Florentine Opera; Pamina in THE MAGIC FLUTE with Opera Memphis; Adele in DIE FLEDERMAUS with Opera Grand Rapids; and Lucia in THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Concert highlights have included the Mermaid in Weber's OBERON with the Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall; Mendelssohn's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM with the Baltimore Symphony; CARMINA BURANA with the Louisville Orchestra; Barber's KNOXVILLE: SUMMER OF 1915 with the New Haven Symphony; and MESSIAH with the New Choral Society of Central Westchester.