Virginia Douglas is a soprano with a passion for telling stories and connecting with people through music. In the fall of 2023, Virginia began her master’s studies at the University of California, Los Angeles under the tutelage of Juliana Gondek. In her first year, she performed the title role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas (2023), scenes from Don Giovanni as Donna Anna and Falstaff as Alice Ford in Opera UCLA’s winter scenes program (2024), and premiered the role of Maria Maladetto in Richard Danielpour’s new opera The Grand Hotel Tartarus (2024).

Virginia has an affection for new music. In addition to premiering Maria Maladetto in Richard Danielpour’s new opera, The Grand Hotel Tartarus, she spent the summers of 2022 and 2023 at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, New York. Here, she was able to premiere various works by resident composers and star in a new staging of Robert Paterson’s opera In Real Life under the baton of William Langley. In her summers at Wintergreen Festival in Wintergreen, Virginia, she has premiered multiple works by student composers in both virtual and in-person capacities. In the winter quarter at UCLA, Virginia premiered a chamber work by Harrison Garff for harp, violin, and soprano called soul awakens.

Virginia’s love of history, culture, and language only increases with her travels. She has attended young artist programs in both the United States and Germany. In these programs she performed in operas, recitals, concerts, and scene programs. She performed the role of Jenny Slade in Miami Music Festival’s 2017 production of Roman Fever and was a chorister in their 2017 production of Le nozze di Figaro. At the International Performing Arts Institute in Kiefersfelden, Germany in 2019, she was able to perform scenes from Cosi fan tutte as Fiordigli and Die Zauberflöte as Pamina.

When Virginia was still living in Maryland, she would often perform in community concerts and programs. Among these concerts, she sang in a series of benefit concerts for Ukraine in the spring of 2022 in collaboration with various other artists in the Baltimore area.

While pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Voice Performance at Ithaca College, Virginia performed in several main-stage opera productions. Under the direction of Christopher Zemliauskas, she performed in The Old Maid and the Thief (2019) as Ms. Todd and Cendrillon (2018) as Madame de la Haltière. During these years, she placed in the Central New York Finger Lakes National Association of Teacher of Singing Auditions in 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2019, she received honors in the Sue Goetz Ross Memorial Student Competition for Voice.

Virginia currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. When she is not in rehearsal, she can be found hiking, swimming, reading, or baking sweets for friends.