Cierra Byrd

Cierra Byrd, American mezzo-soprano is now a new graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. During the 2021–22 season, she made her Met debut as Bertha in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. This past season she sang a Woman of Crete in Idomeneo and Sister Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Met, and made her role and company debut as Fatima in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ new opera, Omar, at Boston Lyric Opera. On the concert stage Ms.Byrd appeared as a featured soloist in Adolphus Hailstork’s A Knee on the Neck with New York Choral Society, and as Medoro and Alcina in a concert production of Furiosus, a new opera in two acts in collaboration with New York University’s Casa Italiana under the baton of Robert Tweeten. Ms