Soprano Sua Jo, recording artist and celebrated alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, has captivated audiences around the world with performances described as “mesmerizing and riveting.” Opera News wrote, “You could take neither your eyes nor your ears off her.”

In the 2026-27 season, Jo makes her role and house debut as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Oper Köln and her house debut as Nedda in Pagliacci with La Monnaie/De Munt. A former member of the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Jo has appeared in leading roles including Liù in Turandot, Mimì in La bohème, Marzelline in Fidelio, Nedda in Pagliacci, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Micaëla in Carmen. Since her debut with the company as Madama Cortese in Il viaggio a Reims, she has also appeared in Hänsel und Gretel, Elektra, Aida, Hérodiade, and Das Wunder der Heliane. In the 2024–25 season, she returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin to make her role debut as Monica in La fiamma and sing further performances of Liù. For the first time, she also joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera for Fidelio. 

Prior to her debut album La Prima Donna, Jo performed on renowned stages including San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. Recent roles include Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Eurydice in Orphée et Eurydice, Norina in Don Pasquale, Juliette in Roméo et Juliette, Blanche in Dialogues des Carmélites, and Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.

As a concert soloist, Sua Jo has been received with high praise for her performances in Mahler Symphony No. 4; Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate; Mozart’s Requiem; Mozart’s Coronation Mass; Mozart’s Concert Arias; Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass; Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. On stage, she has sung alongside the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, and New York City’s Voices of Ascension and under the baton of Patrick Summers, John Kennedy, Anu Tali, Ramon Tebar, and Harry Bicket.