Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, whom The Boston Globe proclaimed as “a radiant voice and presence,” is a native of Ravenna, Ohio. In her 2024–25 season, she is a Resident Artist with the Detroit Opera. During this season, Brianna’s featured role debuts include Annina in La traviata and Antron’s Mother/Kevin’s Mother/Ensemble in Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five. She also covers the roles of Violetta in La traviata, Almirena in Rinaldo, and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.

She is a former Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera where she had two successful jump-ins—as Julie in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar, and as Léontine in Chevalier de Saint-George’s The Anonymous Lover.

In December 2023, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall with The Cecilia Chorus of New York in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem. In May 2024, she was awarded First Prize in the George Shirley Vocal Competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan.