The voice of Midwest Emmy® winning Soprano Adrienne Danrich has been described as “fresh liquid-silver” and “meltingly tender in its high, floating vulnerability” by Opera News. La Cronaca del Wanderer describes her as “…soprano lirico spinto autentico”, “an authentic lyric spinto soprano.” Ms. Danrich made her San Francisco Opera stage debut as Micaela in Bizet’s Carmen. Ms. Danrich made her professional debut as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zaubeflöte with Kentucky Opera while still a part of the Artist Diploma program at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She made debuts with Sarasota Opera, Opera Pacific, and Dayton Opera as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and her Lyric Opera of San Antonio debut as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. Ms. Danrich returned to the Dayton Opera stage as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Ms. Danrich sang the role of Serena in Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess with Dayton Opera, Sister Rose in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Fort Worth Opera. Ms. Danrich has also sung the role of Rosalinda in Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with Lyric Opera of San Antonio, and Azelia in Still’s Troubled Island for the William Grant Still Festival. With Cincinnati Opera, she performed the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida, and Cilla in excerpts from Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner. Ms. Danrich also performed with Kenya Opera in various venues throughout Africa in Nairobi and Mombasa. On the concert stage, Ms. Danrich has performed selections from Porgy and Bess with Sir Willard White and San Francisco Symphony, the Porgy and Bess Suite with Philadelphia Orchestra, the Brahms Requiem with Cape Cod Symphony, The Ordering of Moses and selections from Die Fledermaus with Dayton Philharmonic, Bachianas Brasilieras with Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Dido in Dido and Aeneas with Orchestra of St. Luke’s Outreach, John Carter’s Spiritual Cantata with Louisville Orchestra, and Home for the Holidays with Cincinnati Symphony. Ms. Danrich made her soloist debut at Carnegie Hall with New England Symphonic Ensemble in Beethoven’s Mass in C and Mozart’s Mass in G. She made her Alice Tully Hall debut with The Little Orchestra of New York performing arias and duets by Vivaldi. Ms. Danrich is a native of St. Louis, MO and is an alumna of Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Ms. Danrich has recorded Only Heaven by Ricky Ian Gordon with PS Classics, Age to Age with OCP Publications, Original Songs of Sacred Slumber and Solitude with Soli Deo Gloria Productions and A Tribute to William Warfield with the Eastman School of Music.
