Two-time Grammy Award-winning artist Brittany Renee is making her HGO debut as Musetta in La bohème. During the 2023-24 season, Renee made house debuts with San Francisco Opera as Julie in Rhiannon Giddens and Micheal Abels’s Omar, and with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Musetta in La bohème. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to perform the roles of Destiny/Loneliness/Greta in Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones and cover Micaela in a new production of Carmen. During the 2022-23 season, Renee’s roles included Sadie Griffith in a new production of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, Giannetta in The Elixir of Love, and First Ancella in David McVicar’s new production of Cherubini’s Medea, all at the Metropolitan Opera. Roles for 2024-25 include additional runs of Musetta at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, her Washington National Opera debut as Bess in Porgy and Bess, and Esther in Paula Prestini’s Silent Light with National Sawdust. Recent highlights include her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the leading roles of Destiny/Loneliness/Greta in Fire Shut Up in My Bones; Annie in the Met’s Porgy and Bess, which won Best Opera Recording at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards; her role debut as Micaela in Carmen with Opera Orlando; and the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess at the Teatro Regio Torino. Renee’s international debuts have included performances at the Semperoper Dresden, Turin’s Teatro Regio, Tel Aviv’s Charles Bronfman Auditorium, Bari’s Teatro Petruzzelli, The Magnetic Opera Festival in Elba, Italy, and Opera on the Avalon in Canada. U.S. appearances have included performances with Opera Orlando, Opera San José, Florida Grand Opera, Salt Marsh Opera, Piedmont Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, Crested Butte Music Festival, The Handel Choir of Baltimore, The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the American Pops Orchestra.