During the 24/25 season, Sun-Ly will return to several notable theaters for exciting role debuts, including Opera Philadelphia in L’amant anonyme (Dorothée), Detroit Opera in Così fan tutte (Dorabella) in a new production by Yuval Sharon, and Des Moines Metro Opera in The Cunning Little Vixen (Fox). On the concert stage, she will debut with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Messiah, the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Carmen, the Britt Festival Orchestra for Ravel’s Shéhérazade, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic in Madama Butterfly (Suzuki). She will also return to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Die Walküre (Siegrune) under the baton of Music Director Fabio Luisi. Future seasons include a debut with The Santa Fe Opera and returns to The Metropolitan Opera and Houston Grand Opera.

In the 23/24 season, Ms. Pierce made several high-profile debuts, including The Metropolitan Opera in La Rondine (Suzy), Hudson Opera House in Rodelinda (Bertarido), New Orleans Opera in Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), and Berkshire Opera Festival in Faust (Siébel). Additionally, she returned to Houston Grand Opera in Madama Butterfly (Suzuki) and for the world premiere of The Big Swim (Snake/Sheep) by Meilina Tsui and Melisa Tien, to Des Moines Metro Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina), and debuted with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Die Walküre (Siegrune) under Fabio Luisi.

In the 22/23 season, Sun-Ly made role and house debuts at Calgary Opera in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Laurene Powell), Opera Philadelphia in Otello (Emilia), and Detroit Opera in Xerxes (Arsamene). She also returned to Houston Grand Opera in The Wreckers (Jack and Thirza cover) and Des Moines Metro Opera in The Love of Three Oranges (Smeraldina) and The Falling and the Rising (Toledo). On the concert stage, she performed Mozart’s Requiem with the Houston Symphony conducted by Itzhak Perlman, Szymanowski’s Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin with The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall, recitals for Lyric Fest in Philadelphia, and various programs at Bard Music Festival.

Ms. Pierce is a first-place winner of the Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers and a graduate of the prestigious Butler Studio at Houston Grand Opera. Her assignments while in the studio included Roméo et Juliette (Stéphano), Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady) in the Kosky production, Dialogues des Carmélites (Sister Mathilde and Blanche de la Force cover), Carmen (Mercédès), and Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel). Additional engagements during this period included debuts with San Francisco Opera in Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber (Bao Chai), Des Moines Metro Opera in Die Zauberflöte (Second Lady) in the Kosky production, and Aspen Music Festival in Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira).

She has won top prizes in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition, and Butler Opera International Voice Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition and a Vocal Fellow at the Music Academy of the West. She was also an Encouragement Winner in the New England Region of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. A native of Clinton, New York, she holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Bard College Conservatory of Music.

NOVEMBER 2024