Manna K Jones

World class operatic Talent committed to delivering captivating performances.

Manna K Jones, American Soprano, is known for her dramatic brilliance across opera and classical music as well as musical theater. Recently hailed by the Observer as an “elegant and supple-voiced” Herodias in Heartbeat Opera’s Salome, she has appeared in the title roles of Madama Butterfly at Carnegie Hall, internationally as Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte and made her Broadway debut in Rocktopia, a Classical Revolution. Manna is featured in the Naxos documentary film, Global Wagner – From Bayreuth to the World for her work as Brünhilde in Götterdämmerung.

Among her many career highlights include American opera roles portraying prominent Black historical women figures from Elizabeth Eckford of The Little Rock Nine by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Tania León to Essie Robeson in the world premier of Robeson: The Opera with at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Manna’s distinguished honors include recognitions from Paris Opera Awards, Opera Ebony Benjamin Mathews Competition, and The Art Song Preservation Society. She is a recipient of an American Prize for Opera and District Metropolitan Opera National Council winner.

In most cases, I work with Pianist, but do you have repertoire that can perform with a sound system that can accommodate accompaniment tracks.