Dawna Rae Warren
SOPRANO
“Luminous” soprano, Dawna Rae Warren, brings a knack for captivating storytelling and musical sensitivity to all of her repertoire: Opera, New Music, Baroque Music, Jazz, and Golden Age Musical Theater. Her recent operatic credits include: Handel’s Alceste, Musetta in La Boheme, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco, Violetta (cover) in La Traviata, Abigail Williams in Robert Ward’s The Crucible, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Barbarina in Figaro in Four Quartets, Atalanta in Serse, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte.
A champion of living composers, Dawna Rae has premiered works including Griffin Candey’s Bernarda Alba, Dawn Sonntag’s Verlorene Heimat, and Michael Udow’s A Wall of Two. On the concert stage she has been seen in Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Faure’s Requiem, Tavener’s Eternity’s Sunrise, St. Matthew’s Passion, St. John’s Passion, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem.
Dawna Rae holds an Artist Diploma from CU Boulder, a Master’s Degree from the University of Kentucky, and a Bachelor’s Degree from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.
