Janai Brugger

American soprano Janai Brugger’s recent engagements include her Vienna debut at Musikverein in Brahms Requiemwith CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla; Mahler’s Second Symphony also with CBSO in Birmingham UK; Zerlina Don Giovanni  at Tanglewood Festival under Andris Nelsons; Servillia La Clemenza di Tito and Zerlina Don Giovanni at Ravinia Festival under the baton of James Conlon alongside Kaddish with Marin Alsop.  She sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Ricardo Muti, and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra. She appeared at Dutch National Opera in their acclaimed Missa in tempore Belli (Haydn) conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and directed by Barbora Horáková. She returned to the Metropolitan Opera of New York for further performances of Clara Porgy and Bess, a role she established in their new production in 2019.

Future engagements include the role of Glauce in Cherubini’s Medea at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at Los Angeles Opera, Liu Turandot at Opera Colorado and her role debut in the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah at Opera Theater of St Louis; she travels to Munich to sing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Munich Philharmonic under Maxim Emelyanychev, sings Poulenc’s Gloria with Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and returns to Detroit Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Second Symphony under the baton of Jader Bignamini.