Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson is featured in an article for Amelia Island Opera’s upcoming 2024/25 season.

A Local Touch: Music with a Virginia Connection with host Raymond Jones. This week’s program shines a spotlight on musical talent with deep connections to Virginia, offering a diverse lineup that promises to engage and inspire.

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WHRO Spotlight Series

2023/24 Season was a wonderful year filled with achievements and wonderful debuts. Kyaunnee will be moving forward into more debuts in the 2024/25 Season.

Starting off the season in New York, Kyaunnee will be featured as a guest artist in Harlem Opera Festival 2024 | Opera Ebony’s Winner’s Concert. Following that, she’ll be making her debut Amelia Island Opera in the role of Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in October. In November, Kyaunnee returns to Amelia Island Opera to be featured on their “La Dolce Vita” Gala Concert and a soloist in “This Land is Your Land” presented by the First Delray Concert Series. In December, Kyaunnee returns with Candlelight Concerts as a soprano soloist in their Holiday Concert.

In 2025, she’ll be a featured soloist again in the First Delray Concert Series “Gershwin Concert”.

Photography by Ivan Plazacic

Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson features in Savannah Magazine for the Savannah VOICE Festival Season 12.

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To view the pictures, > Savannah Magazine

Photography by Ivan Plazacic, 2024

Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson will be singing at the Jackie Robinson Park on the Harlem Opera Festival Concert on September 8 at 330P.

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For more information, > Harlem Opera Festival 2024

Following that, Kyaunnee will be making her debut with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra with Yurriy Bekker conducting. She also returns with Hued Songs as they celebrate Juneteenth in Concert. And closing out the summer, Kyaunnee returns to the Savannah VOICE Festival as a Festival Artist.

The Spring 2024 Season is well underway with more debuts and returns!

Kyaunnee will be a featured soloist in The Magic of Mozart Concert presented by the First Delray Concert Series. Later, she’ll be making her debut with Amelia Island Opera in their Gala Concert.

“…The Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition honors the accomplished bass-baritone Benjamin Matthews who—along with conductor Wayne Saunders, Sister Mary Elise Sisson, and conductor Margaret Rosezarian Harris—founded Opera Ebony in 1973. Opera Ebony, the longest continually operating Black opera company is the U.S., is “guided by its mission to mentor and afford opportunity for underrepresented talent on, off, and behind the stage…” ~Eric McKeever

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To Read the Full Article, > CS | Opera Ebony: The Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition

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Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson is featured in the Opera Ebony Article of Classical Singers Magazine January Issue.

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To order your copy of the January 2024 Issue, visit > https://www.csmusic.net

Dario Acosta Photography

Opera Orlando on Broadway at the home of Carmen and Scott Moscrip will feature three very familiar Opera Orlando artists taking on their favorite music theater tunes. Our star performers include Grammy Award winner Gabriel Preisser joined by dynamite soprano Kyaunnee Richardson, the stellar mezzo Laura Hodos, and Orlando favorite Alex Mansoori. Selections will include "Music of the Night," "Memory," "Come What May," and many more with Giusta Nicola on piano.

For more information, > https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebLink.aspx?name=E349459&id=94

“…We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kyaunnee Richardson a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below…”

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To read the full article, > https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-kyaunnee-richardson/

…Conducted by artistic director Pablo Mielgo, Symphony of the Americas will once again perform a variety of holiday classics ranging from the 1970 bilingual hit “Feliz Navidad” and the traditional Chanukah song “Maoz Tzur” to a few merry medleys, including “Christmas at the Movies” (excerpts from “The Polar Express”), “Somewhere in My Memory” (from “Home Alone”), the overture from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and more. Kyaunnee Richardson, a soprano and South Florida native, will perform with the symphony…

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To read the full article, > https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/11/14/need-a-little-christmas-now-heres-a-list-of-holiday-themed-shows-concerts/

…Celebrate the sounds of the holiday season with Symphony of the Americas Holiday POPS! Conducted by Artistic Director Pablo Mielgo and featuring Symphony favorite soprano Kyaunnee Richardson, audiences will delight in the most wonderful time of the year…

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To read the full article, > https://www.outclique.com/celebrate-the-holiday-season-with-symphony-of-the-americas-holiday-pops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrate-the-holiday-season-with-symphony-of-the-americas-holiday-pops

…Celebrate the sounds of the season with SOTA’s holiday tradition, “Holiday POPS!” on Dec. 3. Holiday traditions come together in this unforgettable musical program featuring a Symphony favorite, soprano soloist Kyaunnee Richardson…

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To read the full article, > https://outsfl.com/music/symphony-of-the-americas-serves-up-seven-concerts

“Celebrate the sounds of the holiday season with Symphony of the Americas Holiday POPS! Conducted by Artistic Director Pablo Mielgo and featuring Symphony favorite soprano Kyaunnee Richardson, audiences will delight in the most wonderful time of the year.”

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To read the full article, > https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/Celebrate-The-Holiday-Season-With-Symphony-Of-The-Americas-HOLIDAY-POPS-Conducted-By-Artistic-Director-Pablo-Mielgo-20231113

Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson will be returning to the New Pres Concert Series to sing the Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah on December 3rd. In addition, Kyaunnee with a featured guest vocalist with Candlelight Concerts - Miami on December 15th for their Holiday Special Concert at the Scottish Rite Temple.

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For ticket information for Messiah, > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/handels-messiah-tickets-721721166437?aff=oddtdtcreator
For ticket information for Candlelight Concerts - Miami, > https://feverup.com/en/miami/candlelight

Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson named 1st Place in the 2023 Opera Ebony Benjamin Matthews Vocal Competition.

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“…but soprano Kyaunnee Richardson made Adele’s scenes mesmerizing… and Richardson’s voicing of the oft-excerpted couplets ‘Mein Herr Marquis, ein Mann wie Sie,’ her trills and top D lustrous…. As Adele exhibited her fledgling talent for the stage, seeking sponsorship for a career in the theater, the couplets in Act Three, ‘Spiel ich die Unschuld vom Lande,’ were intoned with musical and comedic virtuosity. In fantastic voice throughout the performance, Richardson reserved her best effort for the final scene, bringing down the curtain with a phenomenal interpolated top D, and her uncontainable smile brought sunlight to the auditorium on a stormy afternoon…” ~ Joseph Newsome

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To read the rest of the article, > https://www.voix-des-arts.com/2023/09/performance-review-johann-strauss-ii.html

“We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kyaunnee Richardson a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below…”

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To read the full article > https://canvasrebel.com/meet-kyaunnee-richardson/

2022/23 Season was another successful achievement. Now, Kyaunnee will be heading into her 2023/24 Season with excitements and thrilling debuts!

Kyaunnee returns to Opera in Williamsburg in the role of Adele in Strauss’ II Die Fledermaus. Following that, she’ll be featured on a Broadway Concert with the New Pres Concert Series. Then she returns with the Symphony of the Americas and Maestro Pablo Mieglo in their annual Holiday wit the Symphony Concert! Along with other special concerts throughout the holiday season. She also returns to the New Pres Concert Series to sing the Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah. And closing the year, Kyaunnee will be making her debut with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in the concert New Year’s Eve: A Viennese Celebration with Maestro Christopher Confessore conducting.

At the beginning of 2024, Kyaunnee returns with Opera Orlando to sing a concert featuring works by famed British composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and other operatic favorites.