A Houston native, Latonia Moore is an acclaimed soprano with a career spanning over 20 years. During the 2025-26 season, she makes her HGO debut as Serena in Porgy and Bess, a role which she also performs with the Metropolitan Opera, and she takes on the role of Bess in Porgy and Bess at the Teatro Municipal in São Paulo. During the 2024-25 season, Moore performed as Musetta in La bohème at the San Diego Opera, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and the title role in Jenůfa with the Cleveland Orchestra. In the 2023-24 season, Moore performed in HGO’s Giving Voice, returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking  and Billie in Fire Shut Up in My Bones . During the 2022-23 season, performances include the title role in Aida and Musetta in La bohème at the Metropolitan Opera  and Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Berlin State Opera . Additional highlights include appearances as Cio-Cio-San at the Metropolitan Opera; Liù in Turandot at Royal Opera Covent Garden; the title role in Tosca and Elisabeth in Don Carlo with Opera Australia; Cio-Cio-San and Mimì in La bohème with Semperoper Dresden; Cio-Cio-San at the Hamburg State Opera, Micaëla in Carmen, Liù, Elvira in Ernani, and Lucrezia in I due Foscari in Bilbao; Desdemona in Otello at Bergen National Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess at both English National Opera and De Nationale Opera Amsterdam; and an appearance on the Gala Concert celebrating the Metropolitan Opera’s 50th Anniversary at Lincoln Center. Moore is a recipient of the Maria Callas Award from The Dallas Opera, a Richard Tucker Foundation grant, first prize in the Marseilles Competition, first prize in the International Competition dell’Opera in Dresden, and three Grammys for recordings of Porgy and Bess (2021) Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2023), and Champion (2024) with the Metropolitan Opera.