Recently, Murrella Parton joined Santa Fe Opera for her comedic portrayal of Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Parton has been described as “magnificent” and praised for her “commanding voice” by Arts-Lousville for her portrayal of Older Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied with Kentucky Opera (2019). During the 2020 season, Parton was a virtual Gerdine Young Artist with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. In the 2018–2019 season, she was the resident soprano in the Kentucky Opera Sandford Studio Artist program where  she made her professional debut as First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and was seen as Hannah/Sheva in Ben Moore’s Enemies, A Love Story.

Parton was a Finalist for The Laffont Competition (2021), previously known as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in which she was a Semi Finalist for the 2019 season.

Parton has performed in the Cincinnati Opera Chorus for productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, Roméo et Juliette, Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, and the American premiere of Julien Bilodeau’s Another Brick in the Wall. In 2018, she had the opportunity to workshop the role of Sabina in Rufus Wainwright’s newest opera, Hadrian, with Opera Fusion: New Works. In addition to operatic repertoire, she has been a featured soloist in concerts of Finzi’s In Terra Pax, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Bach’s Magnificat, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Bach’s Ascension Oratorio, and Mozart’s Requiem.