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Future engagements of Rena Harms include a return to English National Opera as Madama Butterfly (title role debut), AMELIA *Simon Boccanegra* Opéra National de Bordeaux, BEA Heggie’s *Three Decembers* Florentine Opera, DONNA ELVIRA *Don Giovanni* Opera Santa Barbara and *Madama Butterfly* (title role) Arizona Opera and Opera Theatre St. Louis.

Most recently, she joined the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus for DONNA ELVIRA cover *Don Giovanni*, as well as performing HELWIGE/cover FREIA Grand Théâtre de Genève, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Seattle Symphony, MICAELA *Carmen* Florentine Opera, AMELIA *Simon Boccanegra* English National Opera, FIORDILIGI *Così fan Tutte* Staatstheater Braunschweig, DESDEMONA *Otello* Oldenburgishes Staatstheater and the title role in Sigfried Matthus’ *Judith* with Staatstheater Braunschweig and Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg.

She also joined Theater Basel for COUNTESS *Le nozze di Figaro*, DONNA ELVIRA *Don Giovanni*, HIGH PRIESTESS *Aida* and FLOWER MAIDEN *Parsifal*. Other engagements include title role of Fibich’s *Sarka*, Marenka in *Bartered Bride* and COUNTESS *Le nozze* di Figaro, all in new productions with Staatstheater Braunschweig and LIU *Turandot* with Florentine Opera.

She sang MIMI *La bohème* with Los Angeles Opera, where she completed her tenure as a member of the company’s prestigious Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program. Also a former participant in San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, she sang DONNA ELVIRA *Don Giovanni* and the title role in excerpts of *Arabella* in concert. As an Apprentice Artist with Santa Fe Opera, she sang COUNTESS *Le nozze di Figaro* and BARENA in *Jenufa*.

She is a 2010 Grand Finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, winner of the 2008 Hennings-Fischer Foundation Competition and second prize winner in the Marcello Viotti International Vocal Competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, and an encouragement award winner from the Marilyn Horne Foundation. She received her Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music and attended the Music Academy of the West, where she was awarded a merit fellowship.
