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Lauryn Davis is a second-year Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist in 2025-26. Last season, her roles included Armida in Armida, and Momma in Woman with Eyes Closed. This season, her roles include Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers.
Recognized for her poised stage presence and rich, warm tone, Lauryn Davis has become a notable emerging soprano. Her recent performance highlights include operatic and music theatre roles such as Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème and Margaret in Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza.
She has been included in masterclasses with world-renowned musicians and conductors such as Pierre Vallet, Jennifer Larmore, and Chuck Hudson. In 2022 she was the winner of the Atlanta Opera Guild’s Scholarship Competition, receiving the Tommy Trotter Award.
Ms. Davis' residency is generously sponsored by The Haley Family Fund, Susan Candace Hunt, and Steve and Gail Mosites.
Lauryn Davis in Fellow Travelers (photo credit: David Bachman)
Lauryn Davis as Armida "gives a fierce, commanding performance of the part, with a voice of remarkable power and quality. More than once she astonished with a brilliant display of vocal pyrotechnics that almost shook the rafters of the theater." - onStage
"...through the ethereal quality of her voice, [Lauryn Davis as Armida] has the melancholic interiority of someone who just stepped out of a Caspar David Friedrich painting." -- Pittsburgh Quarterly (photo credit: David Bachman)
Lauryn Davis as Momma in the world premiere of Woman with Eyes Closed (photo credit: David Bachman)
Lauryn Davis at Threads of Destiny (photo credit: David Bachman)
