Victoria Litherland has been on the Metropolitan Opera roster for
the past several seasons, most recently as Nedda in Pagliacci and Musetta in La
Boheme . Her Met radio broadcast debut came in 1995 as Musetta. While at the Met she has performed
under the batons of conductors such as James Levine, Carlo Rizzi, Daniel Oren and Dennis Russell Davies. She returns
to the Met in the fall of 2005 where she will be responsible for the role of Alice in Falstaff , followed
by performances of Tosca with Opera Pacific. In the spring of 2005 she sang the world première
of Jake Heggie's revised The End of the Affair for Madison Opera.
Last season she also made her Seattle Opera debut as Manon Lescaut and joined the roster
of La Scala where she covered Senta in Der Fliegender Hollander.
The title role
of Tosca has become her signature role, having performed it with Arizona Opera, Cleveland
Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Tulsa Opera, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera and Austin Lyric Opera. Ms. Litherland has sung Aïda with
Fort Worth Opera and Intermountain Opera and Il Trovatore for Tulsa Opera.
On the concert
stage she made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the Brahms Requiem and has also been in Beethoven's Symphony
No.9 with Las Cruces Symphony and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 with the Springfield Symphony. She sang
Glass's The Voyage in Carnegie Hall with Dennis Russell Davies and was also heard in an all-Verdi
concert for Sarasota Opera in arias from Aïda, La Forza del Destino and Un
Ballo in Maschera.
