Dominican American, Mezzo- soprano, Melisa Bonetti Luna’s recent performances include Carmen at Lincoln Center’s Rubenstein Atrium, premiering a new libretto in spanish and a new Tango arrangement with the Opera Next Door, the premiere of The Climate Opera Project at BAM with American Opera Projects, Carmen in Hogfish Festival’s collectively devised new adaptation, Maddalena in Rigoletto with Opera San Jose, and the premiere of Five Ways to Die with Experiments in Opera. Some highlights include soloist for Bach’s Magnificat at Carnegie Hall with the Cecilia Chorus of New York, new compositions set to Ancient Tang Poems with the Philadelphia Orchestra and iSing! Festival in Lincoln Center and the Kimmel Center, the grammy-nominated original cast album of Three Way by Paterson and Cote, which she also premiered with Nashville Opera and AOP, a Naxos recording of a new wind orchestra arrangement of Granados Tonadillas, Lorca in Ainadamar with the Lexington Philharmonic and Kentucky Opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with Virginia Opera, and the premiere of Paraíso by Sokio and Tiniacos at National Sawdust with New Latin Wave, Anita in West Side Story at First Ontario Concert Hall in Canada, and a tour of recitals in Bologna, Italy through Ebe-Stignani Masterclass.
Melisa is excited to sing in upcoming productions of Zorro by Hector Armienta with Opera San Jose and Kentucky Opera and to return to the faculty of the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan this summer. Melisa avidly curates and performs recitals representing Latine composers, with a focus on new works. Other companies that Melisa has sung with include Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Beth Morrison Projects, Des Moines Metro Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, Opera Columbus, Dayton Opera, Union Avenue Opera, and The Dessoff Choirs.