Latonia Moore

Considered one of the greatest sopranos in the world today, Latonia Moore’s 2025–26 season included the roles of Bess and Serena in Porgy and Bess at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, The Metropolitan Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. She also appeared as Liù in Turandot at Music Hall Detroit and joined The Cleveland Orchestra for their annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert.

During the 2024–25 season, Moore performed Musetta in La bohème at San Diego Opera, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the title role in Jenůfa with The Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, and at the Academy of Vocal Arts Gala Concert at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Moore has received global acclaim for her interpretation of the title role in Aida. Houses where she has sung the role include The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro Colón, New National Theatre Tokyo, Pittsburgh Opera, Detroit Opera, Polish National Opera, and at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Additional operatic highlights include performances of Dead Man Walking and Madama Butterfly at The Metropolitan Opera, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Turandot at the Royal Opera House, Tosca and Don Carlo at Opera Australia, La bohème at Semperoper Dresden, Otello at Bergen National Opera, Porgy and Bess at English National Opera, and an appearance at the 50th Anniversary Gala of The Metropolitan Opera.

Orchestral highlights include the role of Lady Macbeth in a recording of Macbeth with Edward Gardner for Chandos, Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gilbert Kaplan for Deutsche Grammophon, Verdi’s Requiem at the BBC Proms, L’arlesiana with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, and Porgy and Bess with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.