Featured repertoire includes the title role of Tosca, Leonora in La Forza del Destino, and Leonore in Fidelio. Particularly suited to both Verdi and Puccini, Ms. Griffin proves her versatility starting the 2020-2021 season with Heartbeat Opera in the innovative visual album, Breathing Free, highlighting music from Beethoven’s Fidelio to African-American spirituals. The previous season, she was featured as the soprano soloist in Silas Farley’s American ballet, Songs from the Spirit, with MetLiveArts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Griffin first joined Heartbeat Opera during the 2017-2018 season as Leonore in the groundbreaking production of Fidelio, featuring the voices of today’s incarcerated musicians. The Wall Street Journal hailed her portrayal as “imposingly passionate...carrying off Abscheulicher! with authority." She returned to remount the production during the 2018-2019 season. During the 2017-2018 season, Ms. Griffin debuted two new roles: Leonora in La Forza del Destino with New Amsterdam Opera, where she was praised as having a “warm, powerful, clearly Verdian sound...” (Parterre Box), and Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera with Opera in the Heights. Ms. Griffin has been seen as Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble where the New York Observer applauded her “sailing through the treacherous role with a lean, cool soprano encompassing both pingy high notes and gutsy plunges into chest register.” Her most recent concert engagements include the title role in Verdi's Aida as well as Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer.
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