Janai Brugger

Janai Brugger’s current season engagements include her debut as Donna Elvira Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, a role she takes to Edinburgh Festival, followed by her debut as Mimi La Boheme at Los Angeles Opera. Miss Brugger returns to The Met for Michaela Carmen, makes her Seattle Symphony debut with Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, and brings specially curated program of Florence Price songs, Heart of a Woman, to Minnesota Orchestra, a program she also takes to Great Britain to sing with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on July 4. The soprano rounds out the season with her return to Grant Park Music Festival for the Requiems of both Faure and Poulenc. Recent season engagements include her spectacular success in the role of Pip the cabin boy in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick at The Met, and she returns next season to appear as Mrs Hodge in their new production of Lincoln at the Bardo.