Mexican soprano Judy Yannini enjoys a rich performance career across North America. In the 2025/26 season, she performs the roles of Damigella/Fortuna/Venus in L'incoronazione di Poppea (featuring music by Monteverdi, Dang, and Swaminathan) with IN Series and is a soloist with The Arlington Chorale in their Rejoice! concert. She looks forward to premiering a new poem-opera, For Women Serving Time, in March-April 2026 with Theatre Project Baltimore. 

 

Judy made her Kennedy Center debut singing the role of Sara Morales in IN Series’ world premiere of Brian Arreola and Anna Deeny Morales’s opera ZAVALA-ZAVALA, a role which she then reprised with Gala Hispanic Theatre. She was also recently seen with IN Series as Mimí in a Spanish-language reimagining of Puccini’s La bohéme, Bohème in the Heights and as Consuelo in John Adams’s I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. She has been a frequent soloist with The Arlington Chorale and Corazón Folklórico.

 

Judy joined Portland Opera’s Resident Artist program starting in 2022, where she made her company and role debut as Frasquita in Carmen. During her years on the west coast, she performed countless recitals and concerts with Portland Opera, as well as the roles of Amy (The Snowy Day) and Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) and First Fairy (A Midsummer Night's Dream) with Oregon Symphony. A recent graduate of the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland, Judy performed a number of roles with the university, including Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante and Rima in Hajar.

 

In 2021, Judy was named a District Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In 2020, she won first prize in the American Opera Idol Competition with Opera Connecticut, and she was also named the overall winner of the Hartt Vocal Division Competition in 2018. 

 

Before immigrating to the United States, Judy made a name for herself singing onstage with internationally renowned Mexican tenor Fernando de la Mora in the 122nd Anniversary Concert in her native Tijuana, Mexico. She was also part of Ensamble Lírico Juvenil and Centro Cultural Tijuana’s group Opera Ambulante, performing opera flash mobs across Mexico, Canada and the USA. 

 

Yannini holds a master’s in music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland- Maryland Opera Studio as well as a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Hartford-The Hartt School.