During the 2018/19 season, Lauritano made her European operatic debut singing the Third Wood Nymph in Dvořák’s Rusalka with Oper Frankfurt. In addition, she sang the role of Enrichetta di Francia in Bellini’s I Puritani, Olga in Lehár’s Die Lustige Witwe/The Merry Widow, Eine Spanierin in Schreker’s Der Ferne Klang, and Mrs. Nolan in the Bockenheimer Depot premiere of Menotti’s The Medium. That same season, she joined Boston Early Music Festival in the role of Melissa for their new production of Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina and as the winner of Music Academy of the West’s 2018 Marilyn Horne Song Competition, toured a full recital program, which included a world premiere song cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon, to London, New York, Chicago, and Santa Barbara.

In the 2017/18 season Lauritano was seen as Venus in Monteverdi’s balletic opera Il ballo delle Ingrate conducted by William Christie. She reprised the title role in a concert version of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges conducted by Emmanuel Villaume in Alice Tully Hall and Diane in Juilliard Opera’s production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie conducted by Stephen Stubbs. She also performed Luciano Berio’s avant-garde song cycle, Circles with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida and Thomas Adès’ dramatic musical monologue, Life Story, in a concert dedicated to the composer at The Juilliard School. In the summer, Lauritano sang her first Cherubino in Music Academy of the West‘s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by James Conlon. 

In past seasons, Lauritano has debuted with the Virginia Arts Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Juilliard415 and the Little Orchestra Society under the batons of Stephen Stubbs, Jordi Savall, JoAnn Falletta, and George Manahan.

Lauritano completed her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York City, where she also received her Bachelor of Music degree and was granted the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music. She has received prizes from the Metropolitan Opera National Council, the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and the Gerda Lissner/Liederkrantz Song Competition. In 2013, she placed 1st in the Hal Leonard Musical Theater Competition (University Division) and in 2012, was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts by President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. Lauritano is a proud recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant from The Juilliard School.