A versatile interpreter of opera, oratorio and art song, soprano Maria Miller shows a “warm lyric voice with an easy top” (Opera News). She is known for her daring and passionate performances as well as her stylistic expertise across centuries of repertoire. This season, she joins the Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence, Italy for a residency. She also joins the Taylor Festival Choir for their season as a soprano soloist in their Music for the Masses concert, on their Pathways to Healing album recording for release in 2025, and in Bloch's Sacred Service. ​This past season with TFC, she sang as a soloist in Bach's Magnificat and Rachmaninov's Vespers.

 

Operatic roles include Lucilla in La scala di seta with Sarasota Opera, cover of Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Des Moines Metro Opera, and a performance as The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with Sarasota Opera. She sang two runs of The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors in a collaboration between Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Madcap Puppets. The live recording of her house debut as Nancy Smith in the world premiere of Blind Injustice with Cincinnati Opera was released through Fanfare Cincinnati, to critical acclaim.​ She also joined Cincinnati Opera's Opera Fusion/New Works Workshops as Rumer in Menefield’s Fierce and Celeste in Spears’ Castor and Patience. 

 

Ms. Miller has sung as a soloist with Collegium Cincinnati, Mascarade Opera Studio, Opera on the James, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, and Paducah Singers, in works including Handel's Messiah, Bach's B Minor Mass, Vivaldi's Gloria, and Mozart's Requiem. She has been involved in several concerts with Cincinnati Opera, including two collaborations with the Cincinnati Ballet, which was featured on Cincinnati Opera's centennial celebration documentary. She also participated in multiple gala events and a recording of Dvořák's "Songs My Mother Taught Me" with pianist Elena Kholodova.

 

Ms. Miller is co-founder of recital duo Opera in Overalls, whose mission is to create unconventional recitals using the principles of devised theatre. Their recitals Once Upon a Time and Bird Songs (pianists David George, David Mamedov, and Cindy Miller) were performed live and virtually with the Kentucky Music Educator’s Association, Market House Theatre, and Crested Butte Music Festival's RISE Camp.​ The recital combined puppetry, pantomime and interactive elements intended for Pre-K audiences with the art songs of Price, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Honegger, Whitacre, and Heggie. She also was involved with the Luther F. Carson Center's Take Five Christmas concert. 

 

Ms. Miller has received accolades at the Saisons de la Voix competition in Gordes, France, two Encouragement Awards at the regional level of the Laffont Competition, and the Treigle Award in the Corbett Competition.​ Ms. Miller has participated in the Mascarade Opera Studio and the young artist programs at Des Moines Metro Opera, Sarasota Opera, and Santa Fe Opera (COVID19).

 

Maria holds both a MMus and a BMus in Voice from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, as well as a French Honors Certificate from the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence. A native of Paducah, KY, she currently resides in Las Vegas, where she maintains a full private voice and piano studio. Outside of singing, Maria has an extensive background in children's theatre education, as well as writing for the stage. She is fluent in French and Italian.