Soprano Amani Cole-Felder is a 2023 graduate of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During her tenure with the Lindemann program, Amani’s scene performances and role studies included Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Liù in Turandot, Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking, Mary in Highway 1, U.S.A., Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and Musetta in La bohème. Amani made her Metropolitan Opera début in 2021 as the Strawberry Woman in Porgy and Bess and subsequently returned as Woman of Crete in Idomeneo. Last season, Amani made her début with Fargo-Moorhead Opera as Liù in Turandot.

As an OTSL Gaddes Festival Artist, she made her Opera Theatre of Saint Louis début as Lucy/Lovie Alexander in the Damien Sneed reimagined version of Joplin’s Treemonisha. In addition, she covered the title role in Susannah and performed in the Center Stage Gala Concert with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Amani performed the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Aspen Opera Theater as an inaugural Renée Fleming Artist Fellow, under the direction of Patrick Summers, and subsequently returned to Aspen as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni under the direction of Dame Jane Glover.

Other recent performances include Angelica/Fiordiligi in the North American premiere of Roberto Scarcella Perino’s Furiosus with New York University’s Casa Italiana under the direction of Robert Tweeten. She also performed in the City Parks Foundation’s MET SummerStage recital series, was a soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Theresienmesse, and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass with the New Choral Society, as well as the Brahms Requiem and Williams’ Serenade to Music with the Capital Singers of Trenton.