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Soprano Kishna Davis made her New York City Opera debut in March of 2000 singing her signature role of Bess in Porgy and Bess, a role she has subsequently sung all over the world. Performances of Bess have included the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Indianapolis Opera, and Virginia Opera. Ms. Davis has also sung this role with numerous symphonies around the world including the San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, among others. Internationally, she has performed Bess in Rome and Siena, Berlin, Prague, St. Petersburg, Russia, Martinique and with the Chicago Sinfonietta for their European tour. In June, 2005, Ms. Davis performed Bess with the National Symphony at Wolf Trap under Leonard Slatkin.Ms Davis has sung a variety of operatic roles as diverse as Nedda in I Pagliacci with Opera Memphis, Norina in Don Pasquale with the Indianapolis Opera, Musetta in La Bohème with Connecticut Grand Opera and Metro Lyric Opera, and Tosca and the title role in Aida with the Metro Lyric Opera. Additionally she performed the soprano lead in the jazz-opera The Running Man in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 2006, she sang Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking with the Baltimore Opera. In October, she sang Bess with the Memphis Opera followed by concerts with the Portland Symphony, Greenville Symphony and Ft. Wayne Philharmonic.An active concert performer, Ms. Davis has performed with numerous symphony orchestras around the world. Her appearances include the soprano solos in Beethoven’s Symphony #9 with the Jacksonville, Baltimore and Des Moines Symphonies, Clara in Porgy and Bess with the National Symphony conducted by Bobby McFerrin; the soprano solo in Leslie Dunner’s Songs of a Motherless Child with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas, Baltimore and Annapolis Symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin in concert performances of Carmen, and a concert of the music of Duke Ellington. She has performed numerous times with the Baltimore Symphony, performed Gershwin concerts with the Pacific Symphony and the Sunshine Pops Orchestra and returned to the Annapolis Symphony for André Previn’s Honey and Rue. Ms. Davis sang a concert of arias with the Grand Rapids Symphony, the soprano solos in Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music with the Cleveland Jazz Fest; Too Hot to Handel with Marin Alsop and the Colorado Symphony and a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King with the New Haven Chorale. Ms. Davis was invited back as the guest soloist on a New Year’s Eve Gala at the Kennedy Center. Ms. Davis is a graduate of Morgan State University and the Juilliard Opera Center, where she received her Master’s degree in Music.
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