Amani Cole-Felder

Originally from New Jersey, soprano Amani Cole-Felder returns for her third year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. At the beginning of this season, she sang a Woman of Crete in Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera. Over the summer, she will sing the role of Lucy Alexander in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha and cover the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. During the 2021–22 season, she made her Met debut as Strawberry Woman in the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, participated in the annual Lindemann Program recital series, and performed in the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage recitals. Prior to her time at the Met, she was selected as an inaugural Renée Fleming Artist Fellow at Aspen Opera Theater, where she sang Pamina in Die Zauberflöte under the direction of Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers. In the summer of 2022, she returned to Aspen Opera Theater to make her role debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. On the concert stage, she has appeared as the soprano soloist in Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass with the New Choral Society and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem and Vaughn Williams’s Serenade to Music with the Capital Singers of Trenton. She won second place in the 2022 Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. In 2020, she was an Eastern regional finalist in the Met’s Laffont Competition and a semifinalist in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition. She is an alumna of the Chautauqua Institution and Curtis Summerfest Young Artist Voice Program. She holds degrees from Westminster Choir College and the New England Conservatory.