biography

Lyric coloratura soprano ABIGAIL RAIFORD has been praised in the Tulsa World for her “powerful, luxurious soprano voice, as well as her wonderfully comic way of weeping as the woebegone Elvira” in TULSA OPERA'S production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri.   Most recently, she received the 1st Place prize in the Camille Coloratura Awards, covered the role of Giulietta in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi with TEATRO NUOVO, and made her Lincoln Center debut as the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem with MANHATTAN CONCERT PRODUCTIONS in David Geffen Hall.