AMANDA BATISTA is a Puerto Rican Cuban American Soprano singing with passion, power, and purpose. This is Ms. Batista’s third and final season with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera where she will reprise her debut role of the Priestess in the company’s new production of Aida and cover Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Additionally, this season she will appear as Mimì in La Bohème with Atlanta Opera, a role she debuted during the summer of 2024 with Wolf Trap Opera.
“One singer stood out for exceptional praise. Amanda Batista, who has already made quite an impression in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, made a consummate Mimi, 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
In the 23/24 season, she made two role debuts at the Metropolitan Opera: First Lady in the English Holiday Production of The Magic Flute, and Bianca in La Rondine.
“Among the smaller roles, Amanda Batista stood out as one of Magda’s courtesan friends, with a rich luxuriant soprano that marked her as a future Puccinian of note.” - FINANCIAL TIMES
In the 22/23 season, Ms. Batista made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida, appeared as an artist in residency with the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in France, and made her role debut as Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo with the Aspen Music Festival as a Renée Fleming Artist.
In the 21/22 season, Ms. Batista joined the prestigious Merola Opera Program where she sang the title role in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, and Salud in de Falla’s La Vida Breve on the Schwabacher Summer Concert. She appeared as a featured soloist on the Merola Grand Finale concert where she sang the act one duet from Madama Butterfly on stage at the San Francisco Opera.
“Batista brought new appreciation to the work with her note-perfect, musically flawless performance, which exploded properly, shaking the rafters not just with volume but with the kind of elemental power that befits Elektra or Fidelio. Call it “lyric soprano-goes-helden.” -SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE
Ms. Batista is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she was a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. She made her Juilliard Opera debut as Frau Fluth in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater where she was praised for her “vibrant, wide-ranging career voice” (OPERA NEWS) and her “darker, spinto sound… sizable and impressively even from top to bottom” (PARTERRE BOX). Ms. Batista made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing Ben Moore’s So Free Am I for Juilliard Songfest in collaboration with pianist Brian Zeger. Additionally, Ms. Batista was the Second Place winner in the 2022 Eleanor McCollum Competition at the Houston Grand Opera.
“I am called to sing because of my passion for the dramatic arts, the necessity of communication, and the power of personal narrative. There is no greater joy than realizing the melodies roaring from the orchestra are the same ones swelling from deep within ourselves. I sing to serve the greater community - to see and be seen."