Isabel Randall is thrilled to make her White Snakes Project debut for the 2024-2025 season! A civic-engaged opera singer, poet, and librettist from Rota, Spain, Isabel is passionate about making opera more accessible and performing contemporary works. Isabel originated the role of Mable in Boston Opera Collaborative’s Courthouse Bells (2023), a micro-opera focused on African-American voting rights, and participated in the Act I workshop for Loving v. Virginia, an opera based on the historic U.S. Supreme Court case.
Known for her poetic work as “The Inquisitive Typist,” Isabel collaborated with composer Ben Russman to transform her COVID-19 pandemic-themed poems into the staged song cycle “Five Short Pieces: The Inquisitive Typist, earning the 2023 Emerging Artist Award in Music from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. In addition, she is currently developing the opera Once There Was a Girl: An Opera in Three Acts with composer Janet Lagah-Bona, based on her mother’s memoir about overcoming poverty in New Orleans.
Despite being early in her career, Isabel has received international and regional recognition, including being a finalist for the 2023-2025 SND Opera Studio at the Slovak National Theatre, a finalist for the 2024 Eastern Region 2024 National Association of Negro Musicians Scholarship Competition for Voice, and a 2024 Fellow in the Arts with the James Weldon Johnson Foundation. Isabel has performed in a wide range of operas and concerts, including the 2024 North American premiere of Ēriks Ešenvalds’ Passion According to St. Luke (Mezzo Soloist), Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Alto Soloist), Omar, El Amor Brujo (Candelas), The Love for Three Oranges (covering Linette), Carmen, and Porgy & Bess (covering Annie).
This fall, Isabel will join Dayton Opera as an Artist-in-Residence for their 2024-25 season, building on ther previous training with Des Moines Metro Opera’s Frank R. Brownell III Apprentice Artist Program (2022 & 2023) and Boston Opera Collaborative’s Young Artist Training Program (2021). Isabel holds a Graduate Performance Diploma in Voice from Longy School of Music, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Azusa Pacific University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Baylor University. She is incredibly grateful to God, her family, friends, mentors, and teachers for their unwavering support throughout her operatic journey!