World-renowned American soprano Joelle Lamarre is an in-demand performer of new works by today’s living composers. Notable performances include those in George Lewis’s Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera and his new work The Comet / Poppea; the Chicago premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking; Sean Griffin in Charles Gaines’s experimental forms Manifestos 2; the South Shore Opera of Chicago production of Nkeiru Okoye’s Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom; the Lyric Opera Unlimited new comedic opera, Factotum, by Liverman DJ Rico & Maharaj; the Lyric Opera of Chicago performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones & Champion; Chicago Opera Theater’s world premiere of Elizabeth Alumond’s, Quamino’s Map; and Long Beach Opera’s production of Anthony Davis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Central Park Five.
