Latonia Moore

The American soprano has previously starred as Tosca at Washington National Opera, Austin Opera, Opera Australia, and the Opéra de Rouen. She made a triumphant Metropolitan Opera debut in March 2012 as Aida, has subsequently sung that role with 12 other companies (among them London’s Royal Opera House, the Zurich Opera House, and Opera Australia), as well as with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. She returned to the Met in 2019/20, as Serena/Porgy and Bess (HD transmission), which she has also sung at English National Opera and the Dutch National Opera. Additional operatic highlights include the title role/ Madama Butterfly (Met, Hamburg State Opera, Liù/Turandot (Royal Opera House), Elisabetta/Don Carlo (Opera Australia), and Desdemona/Otello (Bergen National Opera). She has also been featured with Opera Orchestra of New York in L’arlesiana and Edgar, and she has sung Gershwin’s Bess with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. Moore can be heard on CD as Lady Macbeth/Macbeth and in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.

Lyric debut: Billie/Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021|22)

Updated: May 19, 2021