Jami Rogers Anderson

American soprano Jami Rogers-Anderson has been praised for her "flawless coloratura line" and for her "remarkably sweet voice."  She has performed extensively all over the United States, as well as Canada, Europe, and South America. Ms. Rogers-Anderson has performed extensively in the operas of Mozart, particularly as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, including productions at New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, L’Opera de Montreal, Sarasota Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, as well as several others. Other Mozart roles include Servilia  in La Clemenza di Tito with Opera Theater of St. Louis;  Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Hawaii Opera, Aspasia in Mitridate with Wolf Trap Opera, and  Zerlina in Don Giovanni with St. Barth’s Music Festival.  

Ms. Rogers-Anderson also appeared as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette with Hawaii Opera Theater, Cleveland Opera, and El Paso Opera; Sophie in Werther with Los Angeles Opera and Boston Lyric Opera; Adele in Die Fledermaus with Kentucky Opera and Opera Grand Rapids.  She appeared in numerous performances with the New York City Opera, including Gilda in Rigoletto,  Fido (the roller skating dog) in Paul Bunyan – telecast on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center, as well as Fire and The Nightingale in L’enfant et les Sortileges. 

Other roles include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with the Palm Beach Opera;  Poucette in Manon at the Metropolitan Opera;  Iris in The Tempest and Papagena with The Dallas Opera; Musetta in La Bohême with Knoxville Opera; Musetta in La Boheme and Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore with Knoxville Opera; Mabel in Pirates of Penzance with Cleveland Opera;   Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with Sarasota Opera; and Marie in La Fille du Regiment and Counegonde in Candide with Lake George Opera.    She also recently traveled to Paris to sing the high-flying role of Hilda Mack in Has Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers, under the baton of Roger Eppele for a concert, radio broadcast, and recording with L’Orchestre du Radio France.

 On the concert stage, she was a soprano soloist in a national NPR broadcast of Handel’s Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw;  the Angel in Elijah at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Lukes, and the soprano soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria with the Atlanta Youth Symphony both with Mr. Shaw conducting.  Ms. Rogers-Anderson recently had the privilege to collaborate with Maestro Erich Kunzel in two concerts:  Viennese Favorites with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a concert of waltzes with the Cincinnati Pops.   She has also performed Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Savannah Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Knoxville City Ballet, as well as numerous concerts of operatic highlights. Ms. Rogers-Anderson has also performed in recital at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and with the New York Festival of Song at Weil Hall with Stephen Blier.

Ms. Rogers-Anderson is the National Winner of the 1996 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a1995  winner of the Opera Index Awards in New York City, the recipient of the Hyndman Award for Professional Development from the Opera Theater of St. Louis, and first prize winner of the Young Patronesses of the Florida Grand Opera International Vocal Competition. 

Ms. Rogers-Anderson earned her Bachelor of Music degree, graduating magna cum laude from Boston University, as well as receiving an Artist’s Diploma degree from Boston University’s Opera Institute, where she studied with renowned American soprano and teacher, Phyllis Curtin.  She was privileged to attend the university on a full scholarship for her entire tenure of study.

As a teacher and clinician, Ms. Rogers-Anderson taught at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.  She has also given recitals and masterclasses at the State University of New York, Potsdam, at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, as well as with the young artists of various opera companies.  She is a professor of voice at Pellissippi State University, and she is pleased to be expanding her studio at home in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she lives with her husband, tenor Kevin Anderson, and their son Beckett.

Currently on the voice faculty at Pellissippi State Community College, as well as running a private voice studio.

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