A second-year in the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richardson performs the roles of Flower Maiden in Parsifal and Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, as well as covering the role of Mary Jane Bowser in Intelligence, during HGO’s 2023-24 season. During the 2022-23 season at HGO, she performed the roles of Annina in La traviata and Woman Whose Uncle Loved Maria Callas in Another City. Richardson holds an Artist Diploma from The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she has sung Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s Rusalka, the title role and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Inès in Donizetti’s La favorite. She holds a Professional Studies Diploma in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her roles included Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Béatrice in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Cherubini’s Medea. Richardson has been seen in several Pensacola Opera productions including Carmen, La bohème, and The Pirates of Penzance. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spirituals and has been the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kennett Symphony and also Ocean City Pops. She has been named a finalist in the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competition in Naples, Italy. This past summer, she debuted the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Wolf Trap Opera, and this year she will perform the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

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A second-year in the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richardson performs the roles of Flower Maiden in Parsifal and Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, as well as covering the role of Mary Jane Bowser in Intelligence, during HGO’s 2023-24 season. During the 2022-23 season at HGO, she performed the roles of Annina in La traviata and Woman Whose Uncle Loved Maria Callas in Another City. Richardson holds an Artist Diploma from The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she has sung Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s Rusalka, the title role and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Inès in Donizetti’s La favorite. She holds a Professional Studies Diploma in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her roles included Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Béatrice in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Cherubini’s Medea. Richardson has been seen in several Pensacola Opera productions including Carmen, La bohème, and The Pirates of Penzance. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spirituals and has been the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kennett Symphony and also Ocean City Pops. She has been named a finalist in the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competition in Naples, Italy. This past summer, she debuted the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Wolf Trap Opera, and this year she will perform the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

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A second-year in the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richardson performs the roles of Flower Maiden in Parsifal and Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, as well as covering the role of Mary Jane Bowser in Intelligence, during HGO’s 2023-24 season. During the 2022-23 season at HGO, she performed the roles of Annina in La traviata and Woman Whose Uncle Loved Maria Callas in Another City.

Richardson holds an Artist Diploma from The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she has sung Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s Rusalka, the title role and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Inès in Donizetti’s La favorite. She holds a Professional Studies Diploma in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her roles included Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Béatrice in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Cherubini’s Medea.

Richardson has been seen in several Pensacola Opera productions including Carmen, La bohème, and The Pirates of Penzance. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spirituals and has been the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kennett Symphony and also Ocean City Pops. She has been named a finalist in the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competition in Naples, Italy.

This past summer, she debuted the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Wolf Trap Opera, and this year she will perform the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.

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Microsoft Office
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Acapella
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Backing Vocal
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Freelance Gig
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Lead Vocal
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Experience Level

Microsoft Office
Intermediate

Language

Haitian; Haitian Creole
Advanced
Italian
Beginner
French
Beginner
German
Beginner

Education

Bachelor’s of Music at University of West Florida
July 20, 2011 - June 10, 2015
Professional Studies in Opera Performance at Cleveland Institute of Music
August 20, 2015 - May 29, 2018
Artist diploma at Academy of Vocal Arts
August 22, 2018 - May 29, 2022

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