Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, whom The Boston Globe proclaimed as “a radiant voice and presence,” is a native of Ravenna, Ohio. She was a Resident Artist with the Detroit Opera in the 2024–25 season, during which her featured role debuts included Annina in La traviata and Antron’s Mother/Kevin’s Mother/Ensemble in Anthony Davis’s The Central Park Five. She also covered the roles of Violetta in La traviata, Almirena in Rinaldo, and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte. Robinson 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-Georges’ 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. Robinson 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. Robinson 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. Robinson is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Eastman School of Music. At Detroit Opera in the 2025–26 season, she will portray Moira in Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale.