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Willa Berliner-Anderson

Soprano
Willa began her career in her native New York City at age 13 in the Corps of Ballet Russe, and then as Ellie in a Jones’ Beach production of Jerome Kern’s Showboat. Since relocating to do her undergraduate work at Mills College, Miss Anderson has become known to Bay Area audiences in roles with companies such as Pocket Opera,

Opera Peninsula, The Lamplighters, and West Bay Opera and Oakland Lyric Opera, among others. Roles include Berta, Il Barbiere di Seville; Josephine, H.M.S. Pinafore; La Ciesca and Zita, Gianni Schicchi; Marcellina, Le Nozze di Figaro; Second Lady, Die Zauberflöte; Lou-Ellen, Oh, Boy!; and the Princess of Granada in The Bandits for which she received a rave review from Opera News. She returned to Oakland Lyric Opera to concertize the roles of Marianne and Annina, in its Season 2000 presentation of Der Rosenkavalier.