Ms. Harris has appeared in leading roles
with opera companies and orchestras throughout the world. In North
America, she has been heard at the Metropolitan Opera (Vitellia in La
Clemenza di Tito), The Washington Opera (title role in Agrippina
and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni), Washington Concert Opera (title
role in Roberto Devereux), Minnesota Opera (title roles in
Norma, Ermione, Armida and Semiramide, and
Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito), New York City Opera (title role
in Handel’s Agrippina, Donna Anna), Austin Lyric Opera (Chrysothemis
in Elektra and Katarina in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk), Atlanta Opera (Desdemona in Otello, Donna Elvira in
Don Giovanni, and Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro),
Michigan Opera Theatre (Norma and Countess), Arizona Opera (Lady Macbeth
in Verdi’s Macbeth), Opera Theatre of St. Louis (Countess), Opera
Pacific (Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Donna Anna), and Utah
Opera (title role in Ariadne auf Naxos and Lady Macbeth).
In Canada, she has sung leading roles with
the Canadian Opera Company, Montreal Opera, Edmonton Opera, Opera de
Quebec, and Vancouver Opera.
In Europe, Ms. Harris has appeared in
Spoleto, Italy as Eva in Die Meistersinger, with Opera du Rhin in
Strasbourg as Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito and the title role
in Barber's Vanessa, and most recently again as Vanessa with
Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
In 2006, Ms. Harris debuted the Strauss
Four Last Songs with the New Haven Symphony as well as Vaughan
Williams’ Sea Symphony under Maestro Keith Lockhart and the Utah
Symphony.
In 2007, she returned to the role of Lady
Macbeth (Verdi) with Edmonton Opera as well as the role of Tosca with
the Cleveland Opera, and rejoined Chicago’s Music of the Baroque with
Jane Glover conducting. She also returned to Austin Lyric Opera for the
season opening Gala.
The 2008/2009 season emphasized operas of
the 20th Century. Three by Benjamin Britten: Albert
Herring (Lady Billows) and The Turn of the Screw (Governess)
with Portland Opera and Mrs. Julian in Owen Wingrave with Chicago
Opera Theater and the role of Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill’s Street
Scene with Chautauqua Opera. She also added the role of Agathe in
von Weber’s Der Freischutz at Des Moines Metro Opera.
In concert, she performed Beethoven’s
Ah, Perfido with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and as soprano
soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the North Carolina Master
Chorale.
Ms. Harris has recorded leading roles for
Newport Classic, including Scarlatti's Ishmael, Haydn's La Cantarina and
The Creation, and on Vox, Handel's Tolomeo. Just released (spring 2009)
is Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow on Naxos.
She returns to the Minnesota Opera in 2010
for Elizabeth I in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, to both Opera
Lyra (Ottawa Canada) and Des Moines Metro Opera for Lady Macbeth, and
Kansas City Lyric Opera as Donna Anna.
On the concert stage, she has also
performed as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony, The Orchestra of St.
Luke's, Honolulu Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Boston Baroque as
well as numerous Carnegie Hall performances with the Oratorio Society of
New York.
