Laquita Mitchell
SopranoSoprano Laquita Mitchell consistently earns acclaim on eminent international opera and concert stages worldwide. Ms. Mitchell performed the soprano soloist in the world première of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road at Carnegie Hall with Oratorio Society of New York which was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award.
This season, Ms. Mitchell reprises her performance as the eponymous Josephine with Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based chamber music group. Mitchell will reprise “Julie” in Omar, a role she created in the opera’s world premiere last season. In concert, Ms. Mitchell performs Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Madison Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Sarasota Orchestra, Sanctuary Road with the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, Verdi’s Requiem with Rhode Island Philharmonic, Tippet’s A Child of Our Time with Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, and as a soloist in Washington Concert Opera’s upcoming gala.