Veena Akama-Makia

Veena
Akama-Makia

Veena Akama-Makia
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Icons Rediscovered: Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Iolanta
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(She/Her) Mezzo-Soprano Veena Akama-Makia will be a Jette Parker Artist at The Royal Opera House for their 2023-25 seasons. For her 2022-2023 season, she was a Young Artist with Chicago Opera Theater.  Ms. Akama-Makia has participated in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, the Des Moines Metro Opera Program, and the Finger Lakes Opera Program.
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Veena
Akama-Makia

Veena Akama-Makia
(She/Her) Mezzo-Soprano Veena Akama-Makia will be a Jette Parker Artist at The Royal Opera House for their 2023-25 seasons. For her 2022-2023 season, she was a Young Artist with Chicago Opera Theater.  Ms. Akama-Makia has participated in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, the Des Moines Metro Opera Program, and the Finger Lakes Opera Program.
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Currently Performing
Icons Rediscovered: Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Iolanta
Marta
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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For her 2022-2023 season, Cameroonian/Ugandan-American Mezzo-Soprano Veena Akama-Makia returned for her final . Ms. Akama-Makia has been honored with several awards, most recently being a 2021 Encouragement Award Winner from the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Illinois District, Semi-finalist in the 2022 Irene Dalis Vocal Competition, and Tier I Semi-finalist in the James Toland Vocal Competition, and received 2nd place in the 2022 Musicians Club of Women Vocal Competition. 

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