Known for her “silvery-voiced soprano” (Seen and Heard International), soprano Victoria Okafor has sung with opera companies such as Washington National Opera, Cincinnati Opera and Opera Birmingham. Okafor graduated from Shenandoah University where she received a Bachelor of Music in Performance. Her roles at Shenandoah included Belinda, Dido and Aeneas; Ms. Wordsworth, Albert Herring  and Pamina, Die Zauberflöte. She received her master’s degree in voice performance and her artist diploma in opera performance at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where she sang the role of Servilia, La clemenza di Tito, and was a soprano soloist for their semi-staged performance of Bach’s Johannes-Passion.

Okafor’s 2019 season included her debut with Cincinnati Opera as Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro followed by the role of Alesha in the new opera Blind Injustice. The role of Alesha was created by Miss Okafor during the opera’s original workshop at Cincinnati Opera. She has also originated the roles of Wilhelmina in Gregory Spears’s Castor and Patience, Nyomi in William Menefield’s Fierce, and Laura in Kevin Puts’s The Hours. The Hours will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera and star singers Renee Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and Kelli O’Hara.

Okafor’s 2020 season would have included Mendelsohnn’s Elijah with the Hilton Head Symphony, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte with CCM Opera and again as a cover with Santa Fe Opera. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these engagements have been cancelled or postponed. However, during the pandemic Miss Okafor enjoyed being a part of numerous projects like Angela Brown’s Opera from a Sistah’s Point of View, Cincinnati Opera at 100 with Cincinnati Opera and Mozart's Requiem with the Kentucky Symphony as a featured soloist. Miss Okafor was an encouragement award recipient for the 2021 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, first place winner for Catapult Opera’s 2020 Accelerate Competition and is a finalist for the 2021 Lotte Lenya Competition through the Kurt Weill Foundation.