Janai Brugger

American soprano, Janai Brugger, a 2012 winner of Operalia and of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, appears this season in several streamed recitals, including those for New York Festival of Song, Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and for Los Angeles Opera’s ‘At Home With’ series.  She makes her television debut on October 11 when she sings a specially-written requiem composed by Laura Karpman for an episode of HBO’s renowned ‘Lovecraft Country.’ Miss Brugger returns to Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, this time with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and revisits a favourite role, Pamina Die Zauberflote for performances at Palm Beach Opera’s first Outdoor Opera Festival.

Last season, the artist returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Clara in their celebrated new production of Porgy and Bess in which she’d previously appeared at Dutch National Opera. She traveled to St Petersburg to record Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with MusicAEterna under the baton of Teodor Currentzis, and to Michigan for performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Detroit Symphony Orchestra before joining the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall to sing Elgar’s The Kingdom. With the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra she performed in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in C with Louis Langree.