AMANDA BATISTA
SOPRANO
Amanda Batista Soprano
RECIPIENT OF THE 2025 HILDEGARD
BEHRENS FOUNDATION AWARD
RECIPIENT OF THE 2025 HILDEGARD BEHRENS FOUNDATION AWARD
ABOUT AMANDA
Puerto Rican Cuban American soprano Amanda Batista launches her 2025-26 season with a return to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Helen in the season opening premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, composed by Mason Bates and libretto by Gene Scheer, which will be conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by Bartlett Sher. Additional duties with the illustrious company include covering the role of Musetta in the iconic Franco Zeffirelli production of La bohème under the baton of Keri-Lynn Wilson. She joins the roster at the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover the role of Catrina in Gabriela Lena Frank’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego with the artistic team of conductor Roberto Kalb and director Lorena Maza. The lirico-spinto soprano will make her role and company debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with Minnesota Opera led by Christopher Franklin. Batista wraps up the 2024-25 season with a highly anticipated role debut of Micaëla in Carmen with Wolf Trap Opera, under the direction of John de los Santos and conducted by José Luis Gómez.
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“One singer stood out for exceptional praise. Amanda Batista made a consummate Mimì, both musically and dramatically. The soprano proved the complete package vocally, with clarion high Cs, but more than just bravado power, with the ability to rarefy and sweeten the top notes into heart-rending softness.”
Washington Classical Review
