Amy Shoremount-Obra

Voice Faculty
Metropolitan Opera

American Soprano AMY SHOREMOUNT-OBRA is the Top Prize Winner of the 2018 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition Wagner Division, and made her Metropolitan Opera Debut in 2014 as First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte — a role she has performed at the Met sixteen times.

Recent operatic appearances include the title roles of Turandot (Opera Carolina, Opera Grand Rapids) and Salome (Southern Illinois Music Festival), and Leonore in Fidelio (Grand Harmonie in Princeton, NJ and LA Philharmonic). Recent concert engagements include Strauss’ Four Last Songs (South Florida Symphony, Plainfield Symphony – NJ), Verdi’s Requiem (National Chorale in Lincoln Center, Varna International in Columbia – SC and in both Rome and Asiago, Italy), and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Modus Opera at SUNY Purchase, National Chorale in Lincoln Center, Scarsdale New Choral Society – NY, and Erie Philharmonic).

She has performed many other roles and countless concerts with additional companies such as Knoxville Opera, Odyssey Opera (Boston), Hawaii International Music Festival, NYC Opera, Annapolis Opera, Maryland Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Spoleto Festival – Italy, Pacific Symphony (Costa Mesa – CA), Opera Orchestra of NY, Oregon Music Festival, Savannah Voice Festival, Savannah Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra, Adelphi Orchestra – NJ, and the Orquesta Filarmónica del Estado de Chihuahua (MX).

Ms. Shoremount-Obra appears as First Lady on the Metropolitan Opera's 2017 recording of Mozart's The Magic Flute featuring Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo and Nathan Gunn with Maestro Evan Rogister and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall five times and has appeared in recital throughout the US, and in the UK and Sweden.

Ms. Shoremount-Obra is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music (BM & MM) and The Juilliard School (AD Opera Studies). She was a full scholarship recipient while a student at Juilliard.