Soprano Brianna J. Robinson, whom The Boston Globe proclaimed as “...a radiant voice and presence” is a native of Ravenna, Ohio. For the 2024-2025 season, she is a member of the Resident Artist Program with the Detroit Opera. During Detroit Opera's 24-25 main stage season, Ms. Robinson will be featured with role debuts as Annina in La Traviata, Antron’s Mother/Kevin’s Mother/Ensemble in Anthony Davis’ Central Park Five, and as a featured soloist in the Complexions Contemporary Ballet 30th Anniversary Performances. She will also cover the roles of Violetta in La Traviata, Almirena in Rinaldo, and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. After a thrilling and successful year, she will return to Detroit Opera for the 25-26 season as a Resident Artist. Along with her other duties as a Resident Artist, she will be onstage as Moira in Paul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale.

She is a former Jane and Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, where she covered and performed roles such as Lucy in Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers, Mimi (cover) in Puccini’s La Boheme, Lena in Ana Sokolovic’s Svabda, and covered several roles in Paul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale. In 2023, she stepped on stage as Julie in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Omar. In the 23-24 season, Ms. Robinson returned to Boston Lyric Opera, stepping into the role of Leontine in Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George’s The Anonymous Lover. 

In December 2023, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall with The Cecilia Chorus of NY in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem. In May 2024, she was awarded First Prize in the George Shirley Vocal Competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She made her international debut in Ruse, Bulgaria, in 2021, creating the role of Ophelia in the world premiere of Joseph Summer’s Hamlet. She was awarded First Place in the James Toland Vocal Arts Competition in the July of 2025.

Ms. Robinson is a proud graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Eastman School of Music.