Marquita Richardson is a soprano and voiceover artist, based in Lexington, Kentucky. Having originally pursued medicine, Marquita started taking voice lessons with Dr. Lloyd Mallory, Jr. in 2017, won an Alltech Scholarship to the University of Kentucky in 2018, and has been studying with Dr. Everett McCorvey ever since.

Marquita has performed leading roles for the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre (Mimì in La Bohème, 2022; Abigail Williams in The Crucible, 2021; Suor Angelica in Suor Angelica, 2019; covering Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, 2018). She has sung as a chorus member with Cincinnati Opera and Kentucky Opera, and as a featured soloist with the Louisville Orchestra. She also performed as Musetta in Kentucky Opera’s 2022 production of La Bohème and served as a 2022-2023 Barbara & Halsey Sandford Studio Artist. This summer, Marquita will serve as an Apprentice Artist for Chautauqua Opera in New York. She has voiced audiobooks, commercials, and radio show characters, and sung in concert across the United States and abroad. Marquita believes in creating a more empathetic world through art and great storytelling.