In the 2025-26 season, American-Venezuelan soprano Amber Norelai makes debuts with the Sag Harbor Song Festival, Irish National Opera as the title role in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and the Bayerische Staatsoper as Hase in Der Mondbär.

In 2024-25, she appeared as Madama Cortese in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims with the Salzburger Landestheater, Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice with The Dallas Opera, and the Forest Bird in Siegfried with Atlanta Opera.Recent highlights include Dayton Opera’s season-opening gala, New Year’s concerts in Wroclaw, and a return to Santa Fe Opera as Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. A 2023 Benenson Young Artist at Palm Beach Opera, she covered Despina in Così fan tutte and Nannetta in Falstaff, a role she also covered at Santa Fe Opera in 2022.

In concert, she has sung Mahler’s Das himmlische Leben with the Wiener Akademische Philharmonie at Vienna’s Musikverein, and was soprano soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater under Erwin Schrott with the Webern Kammerphilharmonie at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn. She made her European debut in 2020 as Anna Reich in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor at the Wilhelma Theater in Stuttgart, returning the next season as Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

Ms. Norelai earned her BA in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma and her MM from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. She is a 2023 Metropolitan Opera National Council District Winner and winner of the 14th International Vocal Competition “Giovani Musicisti.”