Amanda Densmoor

Indonesian-American soprano Amanda Densmoor has delighted audiences across the United States and Southeast Asia. In the 2022/2023 season, Amanda joined Annapolis Opera as one of the bridesmaids in Le nozze di Figaro, performed in Bel Cantanti Opera’s Franz Lehár Operetta Gala, in the chorus of Opera Baltimore’s Faust. Looking forward to the 2023/2024 season, Amanda will return to Annapolis Opera to sing Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, join Manassas Ballet Theatre and Voce Chamber Singers as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, and perform a recital of chamber music for flute, voice, and piano with Matinee.M.

With the Maryland Opera Studio, Amanda performed the roles of the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) and Valentina Scarcella (Later the Same Evening), and covered Dalinda (Ariodante) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). Other roles include Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Patience (Patience), Counsel (Trial by Jury), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), and Kate (The Pirates of Penzance). As a concert soloist, Amanda has sung solos in Carissimi’s Jephte, Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, Fauré’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Requiem. Amanda is passionate about new music, and has premiered the roles of Mother in Joseph C. Phillip Jr.’s Four Freedoms, and Meera in Omar Najmi’s This Is Not That Dawn.

Equally at home as a choral singer, Amanda has sung many large choral works with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Amanda has also sung as a soprano chorister with the Washington National Cathedral, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, The Thirteen, and Lux Choir. Highlights of her choral repertoire include Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, Holst's The Planets, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Liszt's Dante Symphony, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Kaddish, Talbot's Path of Miracles, and the world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik's Across the Line of Dreams.

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Amanda earned her Master of Music from the Maryland Opera Studio, and earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, summa cum laude, from the University of Maryland.