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).
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 will return to the role of Lady Macbeth (Verdi) with
Edmonton Opera as well as the role of Tosca with the Cleveland
Opera, and will rejoin Chicago’s Music of the Baroque with Jane
Glover conducting. She will also return to Austin Lyric Opera for
the season opening Gala.
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.
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.
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