Amanda Lynn Bottoms is an emerging mezzo-soprano most recently engaged with the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program covering Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fillipyevna in Eugene Onegin, Ino in The Lord of Cries, and singing the titular role of Carmen in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Showcase. For the 2021/2022 Season, she will star as Charlie Tyler in the Dayton Opera world premiere of Finding Wright, debut as Mandane in Idaspe (Quantum Theatre), perform Third Lady (Magic Flute) with the Buffalo Philharmonic. To much acclaim, Bottoms headlined the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago Fall 2021 recital series - the opening performance, Songs of the New World, was recently named one of the top three Chicago Classical Review’s 'Best of 2021' and the final recital The Songs We Carried, received honorable mention.
Ms. Bottoms is a recent graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera where her mainstage work included roles in the Maurice Sendak production of The Magic Flute, Menotti’s The Consul, and the world premiere of Admissions in the Washington National Opera AOI program. Heralded for her “superb vocal and dramatic chops” (Opera News), Bottoms debuted in the Opera Philadelphia O19 Festival, as Smeraldina in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, and continued featured work with the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, New York Festival of Song, and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Emerging Voices recital series.
Ms. Bottoms has been a finalist in prestigious international competitions including the George London Foundation, Zachary Foundation, Operalia, and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Regionals. Recent concert work includes collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, UCLA Symphony, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and Cecilia Chorus of New York.
Prominent recent debuts include Paquette in Candide with Philadelphia Orchestra and maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Mahler Symphony No.2 with the UCLA Symphony, Mercedes in Carmen with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua, Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, The Brothers Balliett’s Fifty Trillion Molecular Geniuses at Carnegie Hall, originating the role of Frances in the world premiere of The Flood with Opera Columbus, de Falla's El Amor Brujo with Lansing Symphony Orchestra and Anita in Bernstein's West Side Story with the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo under the baton of maestro Paavo Järvi.
