Considered one of the greatest sopranos in the world today, Latonia Moore’s 2025-26 season includes the roles of Bess Porgy and Bess at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and Serena in the same opera at The Metropolitan Opera and Houston Grand Opera. She performs Liu Turandot at Music Hall Detroit and joins The Cleveland Orchestra for the 46th Annual Martin Luther King Celebration Concert and “A Night at the Opera” Concert. During 2024-25 season she performed Musetta La bohème at the San Diego Opera, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the title role in Jenůfa with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, and an AVA Gala Concert at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Ms. Moore opened the 2023- 2024 season of The Metropolitan Opera as Sister Rose with Dead Man Walking (new production). During the 2023-2024 season she sang Margherita Mefistofele at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, she reprised Billie Fire Shut Up in My Bones at The Met, and she sang the Verdi Requiem at the BBC Proms. She also opened the 2021-2022 season of the Metropolitan Opera as Billie, in the New York premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones; a role she reprised for her debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Ms. Moore has received global acclaim for her interpretation of the title role in Aida; houses where she has sung the role include the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden,
Opernhaus Zürich, Opera Australia, Teatro Colón, English National Opera, New National Theatre Tokyo, Dubai Opera, Dallas Opera, San Diego Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Detroit Opera, Polish National Opera, and at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon. Additional operatic highlights include appearances as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, Liù in Turandot at Royal Ballet and Opera, the title role in Tosca and Elisabeth in Don Carlo with Opera Australia, Tosca with Washington National Opera, Cio-Cio-San and Mimì in La bohème with Semperoper Dresden, Cio-Cio-San at the Hamburg State Opera, Micaëla in Carmen, Liù, Elvira in Ernani, and Lucrezia in I due Foscari in Bilbao, Desdemona in Otello at Bergen National Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess at both English National Opera and Dutch National Opera, and an appearance at the 50th Anniversary Gala of The Metropolitan Opera. Orchestral highlights include the role of Lady Macbeth in a recording of Macbeth with Edward Gardner for Chandos, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Vienna Philharmonic and Gilbert Kaplan for Deutsche Grammophon, Vivetta in L’Arlesiana and Fidelia in Edgar with the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, and Bess in Porgy and Bess with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.