About

Noted by The Wall Street Journal for her “opulent, Wagner-scaled soprano” and acclaimed by The New York Times as the “lustrous, commanding soprano,” Felicia Moore is recognized by Opera News as “a genuine jugendliche dramatische soprano of exciting potential (and present accomplishment).”  She is a powerful and innovative artist having made music in partnership with Alan Gilbert, Anne Manson, Sir Donald Runnicles, Ken-David Masur, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Susanna Mälkki, Rafael Payare, Speranza Scappucci, Alexander Shelley, Evan Rogister, Gary Thor Wedow, Ryan Wigglesworth, and Brian Zeger, among others.

Highlights of the 2025-26 season include continued collaborations with Deutsche Oper Berlin where the American soprano enjoys a particularly close artistic relationship: she bows as Gerhilde in Die Walküre and as the Third Norn and Gutrune in Götterdämmerung in Stefan Herheim’s production of Der Ring des Nibelungen and joins Sir Donald Runnicles singing Tove in concert performances of Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder. Following the success of her debut at New Orleans Opera in Die Walküre, Felicia Moore returns to the Crescent City this season and joins the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for Verdi’s Requiem led by Music Director Matthew Kraemer.

In the last season Felicia Moore sang the role of Lady Macbeth in a new production of Macbeth for Deutsche Oper Berlin conducted by Enrique Mazzola and covered Die Kaiserin in Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles.  In North America, concert appearances included the Verdi Requiem with JoAnn Falletta and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony both with Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony and with Tito Muñoz and the Phoenix Symphony.

Metropolitan Opera highlights of the recent past include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson, The Magic Flute under Dame Jane Glover, Elektra led by Sir Donald Runnicles, Nabucco under the baton of Daniele Callegari, and the company premiere of Anthony Davis’ groundbreaking and influential opera, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X in a new production by the theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play, Robert O’Hara. She made role debuts as Sieglinde in Die Walküre with New Orleans Opera, as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at Opera Maine, and in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos with the Lakes Area Music Festival.

Felicia Moore bowed as Susan B. Anthony in The Mother of Us All as a part of Project 19 – the New York Philharmonic’s multi-season initiative marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment – as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for Palm Beach Opera, as Mrs. Grose in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at Opera Columbus, and at Juilliard in the title role of Janáček’s Katya Kabanova conducted by Anne Manson in a new production by Stephen Wadsworth.

Past symphonic engagements include a debut with The Cleveland Orchestra singing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 paired with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Susanna Mälkki, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony, with Ken-David Masur and the Milwaukee Symphony, and with Donato Cabrera and the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and Gurre-Lieder at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein.  Highlights of recent seasons also include Mozart’s Requiem with Itzhak Perlman and the Houston Symphony, Mahler’s Second Symphony with Daniel Meyer and the Erie Philharmonic and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with David Chan leading the APEX Ensemble.  Felicia Moore has performed Verdi’s Requiem with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, The Immolation Scene from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, and an Opera Gala with the Bergen Philharmonic.

Felicia Moore is a proud alumna of The Juilliard School, Mannes School of Music, and Westminster Choir College.