Visionary performer Janinah Burnett is one of the foremost performing artists of her generation. A versatile singing actor, musician, writer, arranger, and educator, Janinah is in demand and has thrilled audiences domestically and internationally in Opera, Recital, Musical theater, Jazz,Television, and Film. Some of her signature operatic roles include Mimí in La Bohéme, Leila in Les Pêcheurs des Perles, Donna Anna and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Micaëla in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, Violetta in La raviata and many more.

An original cast member of Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohéme on Broadway as Mimí, Janinah won a Los Angeles Theater Alliance Award and performed at the Tony Awards with this production. Shortly thereafter, Janinah joined the roster of principal artists at the Metropolitan Opera and remained there for 8 consecutive seasons debuting as Bianca in La Rondine. Janinah was a member of the closing cast of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, making appearances as “Carlotta Giudicelli” since 2016.

In February of 2021, Janinah released her debut album entitled Love Color of Your Butterfly which features Janinah’s musical arrangements and collaborations with some of the world’s most accomplished jazz musicians. Released on her own record label Clazz Records, Love the Color of Your Butterfly is an amalgamation of Jazz, Opera, Art

Song, Oratorio, R and B, and Spirituals and introduces her concept of “Clazz". "Clazz" encourages collaboration and redefines the parameters of genre while embracing parts of history that are erased, widely unknown and forgotten. Love the Color of Your Butterfly has been featured in numerous publications including the Financial Times, Playbill, Broadway World, Downbeat Magazine, Opera News, and is available anywhere music is sold. Janinah is currently the Assistant Professor of Commercial Voice at UNC Greensboro.