American soprano, Georgiana Adams is an artist committed to passionate and esteemed musical storytelling. A second-year Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera, this season she will make her mainstage debut in Mozart’s Idomeneo and a Blümenmaidchen in Wagner’s Parsifal, as well as reprising the role of Musetta in Bohème Out of the Box. Mainstage cover assignments include Elettra in Mozart’s Idomeneo and Musetta in La Bohème.
Last season’s mainstage highlights included covering the role of Aunt Lydia in Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and covers of both the Bride and Lily in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence, a production which she will rejoin at the Metropolitan Opera in the spring of 2026. Adams was also a featured performer in the 2024 Future is Now concert where she performed scenes of Händel, Mascagni, and Mozart with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.
A 2023 participant in the Merola Opera Program, Georgiana performed Anna in scenes of Kevin Puts’ Silent Night in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, covered the role of Female Chorus in the Rape of Lucretia, and performed scenes of Wagner and Mozart on the Merola Grand Finale Concert.
Last season Ms. Adams debuted as a featured vocal soloist with the San Francisco Ballet in a world premiere program entitled Mere Mortals. Performing throughout the state, Georgiana made her debut with the Modesto Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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A recent graduate of the Juilliard School, Adams earned her master’s degree in music in the spring of 2023 and was awarded the Stephen Novick Grant for Career Advancement. During the 2022-2023 season, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut singing songs of Respighi and made her role debut as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. With the Juilliard Opera Theater, Georgiana performed the roles of Littler Sister in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up, Ciesca in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, and covered the titular role in Suor Angelica. Other roles include Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring, and the Dewfairy in Hänsel und Gretel.
In the spring 2024, Georgiana was the proud winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Western Region, and was selected as one of nineteen singers to advance to the National Semifinals where she performed on the Metropolitan Opera stage. An avid competitor, Adams is a 2nd prize winner in the 2024 Palm Springs Opera Guild Vocal Competition, was a finalist in the 2023 Opera Index Competition, and was the winner of the 2020 Casa Italia Vocal Competition in her hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
