Judy Yannini
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 appears as a soloist with The Arlington Chorale in their Rejoice! concert. She recently premiered For Women Serving Time with IN Series in spring 2026.
Judy made her Kennedy Center debut singing the role of Sara Morales in IN Series’ world premiere of ZAVALA-ZAVALAby Brian Arreola and Anna Deeny Morales, a role she later reprised with Gala Hispanic Theatre. She has also appeared with IN Series as Mimí in Bohème in the Heights, a Spanish-language reimagining of Puccini’s La bohème, and as Consuelo in John Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. She is a frequent soloist with The Arlington Chorale and Corazón Folklórico.
Judy was a Resident Artist with Portland Opera in 2022where she made her company and role debut as Frasquita in Carmen and returned in 2023. During her time on the West Coast, she performed numerous recitals and concerts with the company, as well as the roles of Amy (The Snowy Day) and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), and First Fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Oregon Symphony. A 2020 graduate of the Maryland Opera Studio at the University of Maryland, Judy performed roles 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 in 2018, she was the overall winner of the Hartt Vocal Division Competition.
Before immigrating to the United States, Judy performed alongside internationally renowned Mexican tenor Fernando de la Mora in the 122nd Anniversary Concert in her native Tijuana, Mexico. She was also a member of Ensamble Lírico Juvenil and Centro Cultural Tijuana’s Opera Ambulante, performing opera flash mobs across Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Yannini holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School.