Soprano Cherisse Williams has performed Adina in L’elisir d’amore and Micaëla in Carmen with University of North Texas Opera; Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel with Once Upon an Opera; Nannetta in Falstaff with the Midwest Institute of Opera; the Princess in L’enfant et les Sortilèges and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro (scene) with the Manhattan School of Music; and Sally Hemings in the world premiere of Dana Wilson’s The Wolf by the Ears. She holds degrees from Westminster Choir College, Ithaca College, and the Manhattan School of Music.