Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, proclaimed as “a radiant voice and presence” by the Boston Globe, is a native of Ravenna, Ohio and a proud graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Eastman School of Music. A former Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, she covered and performed roles including Lucy in Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers, Mimì (cover) in Puccini’s La bohème, Lena in Ana Solokovic’s Svabda and covered several roles in Paul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale. She recently stepped in as Julie in Omar, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, at Boston Lyric Opera. In the 2023–24 season, she made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Cecilia Chorus of New York in Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem and was a District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Brianna has performed in the Handel and Haydn Society’s powerful immersive concert experience Crossing the Deep and with ensembles including the Akron Symphony Orchestra, and Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra/New World Chorale. Brianna was a finalist in Opera Ebony’s Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition and was awarded first prize at the Getting to Carnegie Competition in 2020. She made her international debut in Ruse, Bulgaria in 2021, creating the role of Ophelia in the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s Hamlet. Brianna returned to Boston Lyric Opera in 2024 in the role of Leontine in Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ The Anonymous Lover.