Amina Edris (born 1991)[1] is an Egyptian / New Zealand lyric soprano.
Education
Edris was born in Cairo, Egypt, to parents who worked in the tourism industry. She was introduced to music as a child by her uncle who plays the lute, guitar and Egyptian percussion instruments.
Edris' musical studies began with piano lessons at age seven. The family moved to New Zealand in 2002, where she continued her musical studies in high school. In addition to private voice lessons, she was a member of the Barbershop Quartet and choir, and she played trombone in the school's orchestra, concert band and jazz band.
She initially enrolled in the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, as an Engineering student. After one semester, however, she auditioned and was accepted into the music programme, and began studying with Dame Malvina Major. In 2011, she graduated with her Bachelor of Music degree.[2]
Her studies then brought her to Wales, where she enrolled in the master's degree programme at the Wales International Academy of Voice,[3] studying under Dennis O'Neill. After graduating in 2013 with her Masters in Music, she met her current teacher, Cesar Ulloa, with whom she began private lessons before studying with him at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a postgraduate student. She was awarded her postgraduate diploma in 2015.[4]
She was accepted into the Merola Program in the summer of 2015,[5] where she made her role debut as Norina in Don Pasquale.[6]
In 2019, she made her debut in France singing the title role in Manon at Opéra national de Bordeaux substituting for Nadine Sierra, receiving praise from the French press, including Le Monde that called her voice "beautiful and round".[12] The same year, she returned to the San Francisco Opera for her debut in the role of Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette,[13] followed by her debut at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Fatime in Les Indes galantes.[14] She returned to the role of Manon in February 2020, when she made her debut at the Paris Opera in a new production by Vincent Huguet.[15]
At the start of the 2022/23 season, Ms. Edris performed the role of Cleopatra in the world premiere of John Adams’ opera, Antony and Cleopatra at San Francisco Opera.[23] She then made her second role debut of the season, as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust in a new production at Detroit Opera.[24] To begin the new year, Ms. Edris made her debut with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester,[25] performing Massenet’s Ariane. She then joined her husband, Pene Pati of Sol3 Mio, in Prague for a Gala concert.[26]
