Adams, Georgiana

Soprano

American soprano Georgiana Adams is an artist committed to passionate and esteemed musical storytelling. A first-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, this season’s assignments include Musetta in Bohème Out of the Box and mainstage cover assignments including the Bride and Lilly (Student 2) in Kaija Saariaho's Innocence and Aunt Lydia in Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s The Handmaid’s Tale. She also debuted as a featured vocal soloist with San Francisco Ballet in the world premiere of Mere Mortals and joined the Modesto Symphony for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

 

A 2023 participant in the Merola Opera Program, Georgiana performed Anna in scenes of Kevin Puts’ Silent Night in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, covered the role of Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, and performed operatic scenes of Wagner (“Dich teure Halle” from Tannhäuser) and Mozart (“Sola, sola in buio loco” from Don Giovanni) at the Merola Grand Finale concert.

A recent graduate of the Juilliard School, Adams earned her master’s degree in music in the spring of 2023 and was awarded the Stephen Novick Grant for Career Advancement. During the 2022–23 Season, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing songs of Respighi and her role debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. With the Juilliard Opera Theater, Adams performed the roles of Littler Sister in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up and Ciesca in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and covered the titular role in Suor Angelica. Other roles include Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring, and the Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel.

This spring, Adams was the proud winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Compeitition Western Region and was selected as one of nineteen singers to advance to the National Semifinals where she performed on the Metropolitan Opera House stage in March 2024. Adams was also a selected finalist in this fall’s 2023 Opera Index Vocal Competition and was the winner of the 2020 Casa Italia Vocal Competition in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois.