
Recently, she appeared in Mahler’s Symphony No. This season, she made her Met debut as Bertha in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

She was a regional finalist in the 2020 Metropolitan Opera Competition and a semifinalist in the 2020 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition.Īmerican mezzo-soprano Cierra Byrd is in her second year in the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

In previous seasons, she has appeared as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Aspen Opera Theater, as an inaugural Renée Fleming Artist Fellow, and as a soloist in Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem and Vaughn Williams’s Serenade to Music with Capital Singers of Trenton. This summer, she sings Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Aspen Opera Theater. Metropolitan Opera rising stars Amani Cole-Felder, Cierra Byrd and Vladyslav Buialskyi perform a program of favorite opera arias and duets.Ī member of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, soprano Amani Cole-Felder made her debut with the company in 2021 as Strawberry Woman in Porgy and Bess.
