Victoria Litherland '85

Victoria Litherland has been on the Metropolitan Opera roster for the past several seasons, most recently as Nedda in Pagliacci and Musetta in La Boheme.  Her Met radio broadcast debut came in 1995 as Musetta. While at the Met she has performed under the batons of conductors such as James Levine, Carlo Rizzi, Daniel Oren and Dennis Russell Davies. She returned to the Met in the fall of 2005 where she was responsible for the role of Alice in Falstaff,  followed by performances of Tosca with Opera Pacific. In the spring of 2005 she sang the world première of Jake Heggie's revised The End of the Affair for Madison Opera. In 2004, she also made her Seattle Opera debut as Manon Lescaut and joined the roster of La Scala where she covered Senta in Der Fliegender Hollander.

The title role of Tosca has become her signature role, having performed it with Arizona Opera, Cleveland Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Tulsa Opera, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera and Austin Lyric Opera. Ms. Litherland has sung Aïda with Fort Worth Opera and Intermountain Opera and Il Trovatore for Tulsa Opera.

On the concert stage she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the Brahms Requiem and has also been in Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with Las Cruces Symphony and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 with the Springfield Symphony. She sang Glass's The Voyage in Carnegie Hall with Dennis Russell Davies and was also heard in an all-Verdi concert for Sarasota Opera in arias from Aïda, La Forza del Destino and Un Ballo in Maschera.

More information on Victoria Litherland can be found at http://www.victorialitherland.com/

Victoria Litherland as Sarah in Madison Opera's production of "The End of the Affair"