Mexican soprano Judy Yannini enjoys a rich performance career across North America. In the 2025/26 season, she performed the roles of Damigella/Fortuna/Venus in L'incoronazione di Poppea (featuring music by Monteverdi, Dang, and Swaminathan) with IN Series and was a soloist with The Arlington Chorale in their Rejoice! concert. She was proud to premiere a new poem-opera, For Women Serving Time, in March-April 2026 with Theatre Project Baltimore. Her 2026/27 season holds engagements with Portland Opera, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Maryland Opera.

 

Judy made her Kennedy Center debut singing the role of Sara Morales in IN Series’ world premiere of Brian Arreola and Anna Deeny Morales’s opera ZAVALA-ZAVALA, a role which she then reprised with Gala Hispanic Theatre. A favorite of IN Series Opera, she was also recently seen as Mimí in a Spanish-language reimagining of Puccini’s La bohéme, Bohème in the Heights and as Consuelo in John Adams’s I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. She has been a soloist with concert organizations including Oregon Symphony, Arlington Chorale, and Corazón Folklórico. Judy is an alumna of the Portland Opera Resident Artist Program, the Maryland Opera Studio, and the Hartt School, with whom she performed roles including Amy (The Snowy Day), Frasquita (Carmen), Ginevra (Ariodante), Rima (Hajar, world premiere), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), and Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen).