AIT Spring Recital (2025)

About Adrienne Danrich

Emmy® winning Soprano Adrienne Danrich has been described as a “standout, a singer of unusual might” by the Washington Post, and “[an] authentic lyric spinto soprano” by La Cronaca del Wanderer. Her masterful interpretation of new works has made her sought out by contemporary opera presenters and composers, garnering world premiere performances, covers and workshops at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Theater, Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, American Lyric Theater, Prototype Festival and H.E.R.E Arts Center in New York. This season, Ms. Danrich returns to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for her second world premiere with the company, singing the role of Ida in Lynn Nottage, Ruby Aiyo Gerber, & Ricky Ian Gordon’s This House.

In addition to singing around the world, Ms. Danrich is also a multi-disciplinary artist. Ms. Danrich’s Music as the Message, a free community-based, intergenerational program musical initiative featuring international and local artists, will see two new productions this year in New York and St. Louis, in which Danrich will serve as Executive Producer, Host, and Performer. Additionally, as a writer, she received a commission from Cincinnati Opera for her one-woman show, This Little Light of Mine: The Stories of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price, which premiered live in Cincinnati and was subsequently filmed and televised by PBS Milwaukee (MPTV). Ms. Danrich received an Emmy® for Outstanding Achievement for On Camera Talent as a Performer and Narrator. PBS Cincinnati (WCET) filmed a newly envisioned original televised version of the show, which will air in the Tri-state region.

Ms. Danrich is a native of St. Louis, MO and is an alumna of Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Special thanks to lead sponsor Bayer Fund,