Soprano TONI MARIE PALMERTREE (Tosca) is rapidly becoming recognized as one of America’s most riveting performers of Puccini and Verdi heroines. She has been heard on the stage of San Francisco Opera in the title role of Madama Butterfly; of her performance, San Francisco Classical Voice published: “The young soprano not only met the challenge, but she claimed her place among the finest vocal interpreters of the role heard here recently.” In the current season, Ms. Palmertree returns to San Francisco Opera and The Metropolitan Opera, performs the title role of Tosca with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and sings Mimi in La bohème for OperaDelaware and Opera Baltimore. At the Metropolitan Opera, she performed the role of Voce dal ciel and covered the role of Elisabeth de Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo, and covered the title role of Cherubini’s Medea. Further recent performances include Contessa Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro with OperaDelaware.