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portraits by Kendra Irene

​​American soprano Amber Daniel is a rising operatic artist recognized for her powerful, flexible and expressive instrument and soloist work in title operatic heroines. She recently had the unexpected pleasure to make her Metropolitan Opera company and Carnegie Hall debuts in a sold-out performance of Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem as extra-chorister and will make her upcoming Metropolitan Opera stage debut on 9/27, 29 and 30th in the soprano 1 section for the Verdi Requiem opening the 2023-2024 season. 

Ms. Daniel made her professional operatic and role debut as Cio-Cio San in Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly by invitation of renowned Maestro Lorin Maazel at his 2014 Castleton Festival. In 2019, she made her European debut in the title part of Ariadne auf Naxos for the Trentino Music Festival. Other prepared roles and credits on the operatic stage include leading ladies Rusalka, Mimì, Jenufa, Nedda, Leonora (Il Trovatore) and Iolanta.
 
Ms. Daniel is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, notably a 2nd place award in the 2016 Wagner division of the Gerda Lissner International Singing Competition recognizing her talent for lyric Wagnerian/Straussian roles. Her talent has also been recognized by the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation; The Giulio Gari Foundation and The Violetta DuPont Competition at Opera at Florham, NJ. 
 
On the concert stage the young soprano was recently credited by Operawire for giving a "phenomenal performance" as soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem with the New York Choral Society. She was pleased to reappear with them again as soprano soloist for the Mozart Requiem in 2017. 
 
With a passion for new music and song literature she recently performed Tre Sonetti di Petrarca (Lizst) and Three Watercolors (Franghiz Ali-Zadeh) at the 2018 inaugural season of Chamber Music, etc. In 2016, Ms. Daniel recorded and performed the premiere of a new song cycle Gravitations by composer James G. Lindsay with the Memling Ensemble. She has also performed extensive Slavic vocal works by Janacek, Dvorak, Glinka, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov in recital with Opera Slavica.
 
Ms. Daniel trained as a young artist with The Martina Arroyo Foundation Prelude to Performance program, L’Accademia Chigiana with master teacher and soprano Raina Kabaivanska, Tri-Cities Opera Resident Artist Training Program, Opera Slavica, Masterclass Ischia, Music Academy International and Montclair State University. 

For all inquiries please write to amber@amberdaniel.com or fill out the contact form. Thank you.

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