Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi is making waves in the world of opera, with Opera News
dubbing her a “powerhouse in the making” for her portrayal of Suzuki in Madama
Butterfly. In the upcoming 2024-25 season she is making her debut at Florentina Opera,
Kentucky opera, and Austin Opera in her signature role as Suzuki in Madame Butterfly.
She returns to Virginia Opera as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. During the 2023-2024, Ms.
Choi reprised the role of Suzuki with return engagements at Opera Philadelphia and
Virginia Opera, while also making a company debut in the role with Detroit Opera.
Additional operatic performances this season included a return to Dallas Opera to sing
the 2nd Maidservant in Elektra and joining the Hart Institute for Women Conductors to
sing excerpts from Suor Angelica. On the concert stage, Ms. Choi made exciting debuts
with both the Naples Philharmonic and the Phoenix Symphony singing as the alto
soloist in Messiah.
In 2022-2023, she returned to Opera Philadelphia in Toshio Hosokawa’s The Raven,
made her Lubbock Symphony debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, joined the roster of
The Metropolitan Opera as the Dimitri cover in Fedora, joined Opera Idaho in the role of
Hiroko in An American Dream, returned to Opera Omaha as Cherubino in Le nozze di
Figaro and joined Opera Delaware for a workshop of Derrick Wang’s Fearless as
Mother. In the 2023 summer season, she joined the West Edge Opera as the Cook in
Stravinsky’s Le rossignol.
During the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Choi made her Dallas Opera debut as the
Stewardess in Flight, joined Opera Philadelphia in Rene Orth’s Tak Tak Shoo and as
Maddalena in Rigoletto, returned to Washington National Opera as Phoung Tran in a
workshop of The Rift by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang, made her Dayton
Philharmonic debut as the alto soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and debuted at
HALO as Annina in La traviata.