Holli Harrison\u2019s \u2018stunning vocal beauty\u2019 and \u2018huge range, resilience and power\u2019 have heralded her as one of America\u2019s most promising Young Dramatic Sopranos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Harrison is a Grand Prize Winner of the 2006 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Highlights this season include Berta in the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday presentation of The Barber of Seville, Mozart Mass in C Minor with the Savannah Philharmonic and returning to the Metropolitan Opera in the spring to participate in a new production of Strauss’ Elektra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Harrison made her debut on The Metropolitan Opera stage in the role of Berta in Bartlett Sher\u2019s critically acclaimed production of The Barber of Seville in 2013. She returned in the fall of 2014 to sing Aksinya in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk which was voted as one of the top classical performances of 2014. Other significant roles include Marianna in Das Liebesverbot, Boule de Suif in The Greater Good World Premiere, both with Glimmerglass Opera, and her role debut in Don Giovanni at Fort Worth Opera where the press described her Donna Elvira as possessing \u201ca gratifyingly strong and consistent soprano that sustained full power in the low register. Harrison’s Elvira was a pretty tough lady, in both her vocal heft and her regal bearing.\u201d – Opera News<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having began her career as a Young Artist with Pittsburgh Opera, Harrison joined the artist roster of the Metropolitan Opera in 2007 participating in productions such as Robert LePage\u2019s new Ring Cycle as Helmwige in Die Walk\u00fcre and Dritte Norn in G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung. Other contributions include F\u00fcnfte in Magd Elektra, Erste Damme in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te and Ortlinde in Die Walk\u00fcre directed by Otto Shenk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An experienced concert performer, Ms Harrison has sung with some of America\u2019s leading orchestras and ensembles. Noteworthy performances include Mendelssohn\u2019s Logbesang with the Seattle Symphony, Santuzza Cavalleria Rusticana with the Campanile Orchestra, Schubert\u2019s Mass in A flat minor with the St Luke\u2019s Chamber Ensemble and Mozart\u2019s Requiem with the Houston Chamber Choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beginning her formal training at Middle Tennessee State University and Rice University, she went on to develop her skills as an alumnus of Pittsburgh Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, Chautauqua Institute of Music and Music Academy of the West. Alongside her success in the National Council Auditions, her other prizes include awards in the Wagner Division of both the 2010 Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Liederkranz competition in 2009. She was also the winner of the Opera Index Vocal Competition, the National Orpheus Competition, the Grace Moore Competition for Singers and was an R. F. Gold Career Grant recipient from the Shoshana Foundation.<\/p>\n