The mezzo-soprano Bonita Hyman, born in New York City, has performed as a featured soloist on numerous stages in the United States and Europe, among them Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, the Opera Orchestra of New York, Grand Théatre de Genève, Opéra Nationale de Lyon, the Opéra Comique de Paris, Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf), Oper Leipzig, Städtische Bühnen Nürnberg, the Bregenzer Festspiele and the National Reisopera in the Netherlands.

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Most recently has Hyman been engaged as the Erste Magd in the acclaimed Chéreau production of ELEKTRA by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Festival Aix- en-Provence, as well as in the role of Begonia in Henze’s DER JUNGE LORD at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in München and the Staatsoper Hannover (2017), in the role of Maria in PORGY AND BESS at the Wiener Volksoper and the Opéra Comique in Paris, and re-engaged in various roles at Düsseldorf und Bregenz (2012).

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Her repertoire includes the roles of Azucena („IL TROVATORE”), Ulrica („UN BALLO IN MASCHERA“), Erda („DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN”), Suzuki („MADAMA BUTTERFLY”), Bradamante („ALCINA”), Ursula („BÉATRICE ET BÉNÈDICT”), both Baba the Turk and Mother Goose („THE RAKE’S PROGRESS“), Geneviève („PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE”) and Maria („PORGY AND BESS”), among others.

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As a concert artist, her repertoire crosses the spectrum from Händel („MESSIAH”) to Verdi („REQUIEM”) through to Berio („SINFONIA”), in which she performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and she has appeared as a featured soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Philharmonie des Nationen, the Orchestra of Operá Marseille, the Organaciòn Filharmonia of Mexico in Mexico City, and the Chicago Sinfonietta, among many others.

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Ms. Hyman received her artistic training at Oberlin College - Conservatory of Music (Oberlin, Ohio - USA), at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut - USA), and in the Opera Studio of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists in Chicago.