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. She makes her Carnegie Hall debut this spring as the soprano soloist in Taylor Scott Davis’ Magnificat with Manhattan Concert Productions, and returns to Teatro Nuovo to sing Lisa in Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Most recently, she was a National Finalist in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, won both 1st Place and Audience Favorite in the D’Angelo Young Artist Vocal Competition with Opera Tampa, received the Opera Index Award from the Opera Index Vocal Competition, and debuted with the Glacier Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In 2024, she received 1st Place in the Camille Coloratura Awards and the Charles Maggio Award as the 1st Runner Up of Shreveport Opera’s Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition, 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.
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