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 will compete as a National Semifinalist in the 2025 METROPOLITAN OPERA LAFFONT COMPETITION this spring. Most recently, she won both 1st Place and Audience Favorite in the D'ANGELO YOUNG ARTST 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 COLURATURA AWARDS and the Charles Maggio Award as the 1st Runner Up of Shreveport Opera’s MARY JACOB'S 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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