Danielle is very excited to make her company debut with Boston Summer Opera this August as the Kate cover in Pirates of Penzance. She recently made several company debuts this past season including Chorus with Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Lady Psyche in Princess Ida with Sudbury Savoyards, covering Zerlina with Boston Baroque, and as a featured artist with Calliope music, the highlight of wihch was getting to perform Ukrainian songs with her husband Bohdan at the piano alongside a stunning work of art created to fit with the songs.

Praised for her “effervecience”, charming stage presence and “golden-age sound”, soprano Danielle Shevchenko is known for her engaging performances in the roles of Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Woglinde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Pernille/”Captain Lovelock” in John Duke’s Captain Lovelock, the Taumänchen and Hänsel in Hänsel & Gretel, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Katharina, in the World Premiere of Katharina von Bora by Mihai Valcu and Peep-Bo in Hawaii Performing Arts Festival’s award-winning production of The Mikado. Other roles include First Touriere in Suor Angelica with Greater Worcester Opera, Amelia in Franz von Suppe’s The Finishing School, and Landry in Offenbach’s Chanson de Fortunio.

“Danielle Smith as Katharina [was] excellent…[d]uring the poignant final scene, as Katharina is dying, I thought to myself, “What is this running down my cheeks?”
It was tears!”
-Edgar S. Groves, New Castle News

In 2022, Danielle made her company debut with Greater Worcester Opera as the First Touriere in Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Danielle also had plans to join ACOCo, formerly Gertrude Opera, as a Young Artist for their 2020 season in Melbourne, Australia, however, Covid restrictions made this opportunity impossible. In March 2020, Danielle managed to make her professional debut with Opera On Tap-Rhode Island, as Papagena from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

In August 2019, soprano Danielle lept from her usual comic portrayals and dove into Nibelheim as Woglinde, a Rheinmädchen from the first of Wagner’s famous Ring Cycle, Das Rheingold.  Danielle made her exhilarating Wagnerian debut with the Berlin Dramatic Voices Program in their Opera/Lieder Residency, where she also performed a lieder recital culminated from masterpieces by Hugo Wolf, Alban Berg, Clara Schuman, Franz Schubert, and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Amongst many unique opportunities, Danielle performed a special concert in the ancient Theater of Epidaurus, while traveling abroad in Greece and has attended several music festivals including, VAO Bodrum, Berlin Dramatic Voices Program, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Miami Music Festival, TOP Opera in Maurach, Austria, and Italy Opera Viva! in Verona, Italy. Her scene credits include Adele, Eurydice, Cleopatra, Rosina, Despina, Papagena, Cleopatra, Susanna, Lauretta, Zerlina, and Gretel, among others.

Aside from performing and studying music abroad, Danielle has taken it upon herself to broaden her linguistic education by studying German at the Goethe Institute in Mannheim Germany for a summer, an opportunity which afforded her an invitation into the highly selective cast for Jane Struss’s “Schubert’s Winterreise in a New Light,” which was named by renowned music critic, Lloyd Schwartz as “2016’s best vocal recital” in Boston.

As a certified yoga and mobility teacher, Danielle teaches a wide range of classes from vinyasa flow to chair yoga and everything in between. She loves to incorporate this movement into her voice teaching, striving to help her students find ease and freedom in their practice. She teaches classical, opera, musical theater, and pop/rock styles both privately and through POMS in Bedford, MA. Danielle currently studies with Carol Mastrodomenico and bases her own teaching in italian belcanto style and uses an evidence-based approach for healthy, efficient singing. She holds an M.M. in Voice Performance from Longy School of Music and a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Westminster College. Danielle currently resides in Belmont, MA with her husband, a talented bassoonist, pianist, and photographer from Ukraine. When not making music together, they love hiking and exploring the outdoors with their Jack Russell, Wotan.

Currently a section leader at Christ Episcopal Church in Needham, she has been a featured soloist and section leader with many local churches and choirs including Old North Church, St. Andrews by the Sea, Tabernacle Congregational, St. Columbkille’s, Emanuel Lutheran, Canton Choral Society, Parish of the Good Shepherd, St. Michael’s of Milton, Weston United Methodist, Trinity Parish of Newton Centre, United Parish of Auburndale, St. Peter’s Episcopal, Congregational Church of Needham, First Baptist, and Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, among others. 

During her undergraduate career, Danielle won Westminster’s annual Concerto and Aria Competition and performed with the Westminster Orchestra. As a Junior, she was awarded the prestigious scholarship for Most Outstanding Junior Performance Major, and later chosen to sing the alma mater for her own graduation.  Danielle sang with every choir offered at Westminster and was a frequent soloist, most notably for Faure’s Requiem. Under the direction of her voice teacher, Dr. Anne Bentz, Danielle was able to help design and execute an educational outreach program focused on teaching audiences more about opera and the voice to the community through local churches, schools, and assisted living homes as a two year internship through New Castle Lyric Opera.

In addition to singing and performing, Danielle is a Certified Yoga Teacher, FEO Level 1 Mobility Instructor, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, holds a 4th degree black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do, is an accomplished horse trainer, and has worked behind the scenes in all areas of theater/stage production for Boston’s most prestigious production companies including Boston Baroque, Boston Lyric Opera, Enigma Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Celebrity Series, Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard’s ART and Agassiz Theater, Tuft’s University, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Central Square Theater, Masterworks Chorale, Hub Theater Company of Boston, Tufts University, and Longy School of Music Opera Theater productions.