A recent graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio, Haitian-American soprano Renée Richardson hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richardson completed her season with the roles of Flower Maiden in Parsifal and Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, as well as covering the role of Mary Jane Bowser in Intelligence, during HGO’s 2023-24 season. During the 2022-23 season at HGO, she performed the roles of Annina in La traviata and Woman Whose Uncle Loved Maria Callas in Another City.

Richardson holds an Artist Diploma from The Academy of Vocal Arts, where she has sung Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème, Foreign Princess in Dvořák’s Rusalka, the title role and Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and Inès in Donizetti’s La favorite. She holds a Professional Studies Diploma in Voice from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where her roles included Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Béatrice in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict, and the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Cherubini’s Medea.

In January 2025, Richardson debuts the role of La Countessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Pensacola Opera. Richardson has been seen in several Pensacola Opera productions including Carmen, La bohème, and The Pirates of Penzance. This season, Richardson joins both Bay Atlantic Symphony and the Reno Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Haydn’s Lord Nelson’s Mass. She was the recipient of an A. Grace Lee Mims Scholarship for Negro Spirituals and has been the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kennett Symphony and also Ocean City Pops. She has been named a finalist in the Vincerò Worldwide Opera Competition in Naples, Italy. For the past two summers, she debuted the roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Wolf Trap Opera. She is also the recipient of the Catherine Filene Shouse Career Development grant, and a George and Nora London encouragement award.