Allison Charney

Allison Charney’s operatic career began in earnest with her debut at the New York City Opera as Musetta in “La bohème.” She has sung most of Puccini’s leading soprano roles in opera companies throughout the country, including the title roles in “Madama Butterfly,” “Tosca” and “Suor Angelica,” Mimi in “La bohème” and Liù in “Turandot.” Charney has experienced enormous success with her Mozart interpretations as well, including both Susanna and the Countess in “Le Nozze di Figaro,” both Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni,” Pamina in “Die Zauberflöte” and Sandrina in the rarely heard “La Finta Giardiniera.” Charney’s career has brought her to opera companies from coast to coast across the United States. Concert highlights have included performances at Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, as a featured soloist with the esteemed Philadelphia Orchestra and with the Boston Pops under the baton of Alan Gilbert. Continuing her commitment to performing music of our times, Charney recently premiered Moshe Knoll’s “Psalm 133” with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Barbara Day Turner, in a concert that also featured Kim D. Sherman’s oratorio (composed for Charney) “Songbird and the Eagle.” After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude with highest honors, in Special Concentrations from Harvard University, she went on to earn two graduate degrees in music from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Charney now lives in New York with her husband and their two sons.