Performance Repertoire

 
Karmesha Peake

Opera

 

Leslie Adams

  • Mama Juba | Blake (Trilogy: An Opera Company)


Terence Blanchard

  • Ensemble Soloist | Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Metropolitan Opera; 2021 Grammy Award)

  • Ensemble | Champion (Metropolitan Opera; 2022 Grammy Award)


Marc Blitzstein

  • Addie | Regina (Bronx Opera)


Anthony Davis

  • Ensemble | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Metropolitan Opera)


Carlisle Floyd

  • Mrs. Ott | Susannah (Lighthouse Opera)


Harry Lawrence Freeman

  • Chloe | Voodoo (Harlem Opera Theater)


George Gershwin

  • Ensemble | Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); 2019 Grammy Award

  • Strawberry Woman | Porgy and Bess (Odyssud Theater)


Ricky Ian Gordon

  • Gospel Quartet-Mezzo | A Coffin in Egypt (Workshop, Houston Grand Opera)


Charles Gounod

  • Marthe | Faust (Hudson River Opera)


James Legg

  • Mrs. Harrow | The Power of Xingu (University of Kentucky Opera Theater) 


Pietro Mascagni

  • Beppe | L’Amico Fritz (Hudson River Opera)

  • Mamma Lucia | Cavalleria Rusticana (Hudson River Opera)


Thea Musgrave

  • Rit |  Harriet the Woman Called Moses (Utopia Opera)


Modest Mussorgsky

  • Ensemble | Boris Godunov (Metropolitan Opera)


Giocomo Puccini

  • La Badessa | Suor Angelica (Operafestival di Roma)


Dmitri Shostakovich

  • Ensemble | Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk (Metropolitan Opera)


Giuseppi Verdi

  • Maddalena, Giovanna, Countess Ceprano | Rigoletto (Hudson River Opera, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra)

  • Ulrica | Un Ballo in Maschera (Hudson River Opera)

  • Azucena | Il Trovatore (Hudson River Opera)

  • Dame Quickly | Falstaff (University of Kentucky Opera Theater)

  • Ensemble | Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera)


Richard Wagner

  • First Norn, Flosshilde | Götterdämmerung (Trilogy: An Opera Company)

  • Waltraute | Die Walküre (Trilogy: An Opera Company)

  • Erda | Siegfried (Trilogy: An Opera Company)


Mary Watkins

  • Aunt Lizzy | Emmett Till (Harlem Opera Theater)

 

Concert & Oratorio

Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Marianna Martines' Dixit Dominus (Grace Chorale of Brooklyn), Mezzo Soloist

Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem (World Premiere - Oregon Symphony, Kennedy Center, Ft. Worth Opera), Mezzo Soloist

Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Oratorium nach Bildern der Bibel (Grace Chorale of Brooklyn), Mezzo Soloist

J.S. Bach’s Magnificat (Grace Chorale of Brooklyn), Alto Soloist

Amy Beach’s Mass in E Flat (Grace Chorale of Brooklyn), Mezzo Soloist

Margaret Bonds’ Ballad of a Brown King (Grace Chorale of Brooklyn), Mezzo Soloist

Handel’s Messiah (Abyssinian Baptist Church, St. Matthew's Community A.M.E. Church), Alto Soloist