Marquita Lister has earned worldwide critical praise for the past two decades for an impressive repertoire that includes the masterworks of Verdi, Strauss, Puccini and Gershwin. Ms. Lister has sung with major opera companies such as the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Montreal Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, La Scala, Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Bastille Paris, The Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood Music Center, Brevard Music Festival, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, to name a few. She has appeared in television broadcast productions of An Evening with the Pops; Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops (PBS), A Christmas Celebration: Dallas Symphony Orchestra (KXAS- TV), and Live from Lincoln Center: New York City Opera, Porgy and Bess (PBS – Emmy Nominated). In studio, Ms. Lister recorded George Gershwin’s Blue Monday and Excerpts from Porgy and Bess for Telarc Records with Erich KunzeI and the Cincinnati Pops (Grammy nominated), Where the Sunsets Bleed: The Chamber Music of Edward Knight on Albany Records, and the critically acclaimed Porgy and Bess recording on the Decca label hailed. Ms. Lister is the Coordinator of Vocal Studies and Director of Opera at Morgan State University, Artistic Director of Opera Ebony, and an Officer of the Maryland District Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
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Marquita Lister is faculty at the 2026 Schmidt Vocal Institute