Paula Newberry - Soprano
Praised for her rich unique sound, effortless high notes, fluid vocal line, and graceful stage presence, American Soprano, Paula Newberry has appeared with opera companies, symphonies and opera academies throughout the world, including: Opera Memphis, Central Florida Lyric Opera, Carnegie Hall, Altamura Caruso Summer Opera Theater, Como Opera Guild, The Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium (Italy), Mozarteum Sommerakademie Salzburg,
The Berlin Opera Academy, Gateways Music Festival (Rochester, NY),
The Benjamin Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA), River Repertory Theater, Jenner Theater, Harrell Theater, Memphis Symphony, Memphis Sunset Symphony, Germantown Symphony and the Memphis Opera and Song Academy.
Her concert career has taken her to world concert stages such as Carnegie Hall, Germantown Performing Arts Center, Buckman Auditorium, Rust College, Rhodes College, Gateways Music Festival, Amro Music Auditorium in New York, California, Illinois, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi and Germany, Italy and Austria.
The 2022/23 performance season introduced audiences to Ms. Newberry’s concert promotion, touring, and production company, Rainbow Opera Enterprises, followed by her opera debut with The Berlin Opera Academy in the role of Minerve, in Offenbach’s, Orpheus in the Underworld with The Berlin Opera Academy. The soprano’s 2021/22 season included performances with the Memphis Sunset Symphony, the Gestalt School District Grammy Awards Ceremony where she won a Gestalt Grammy Award, and her own concert tour of Spirit Moving Spirituals. In the 2019/20 season, she was invited to sing for the Bayerische Opernakademie in Germany. In the 2018-19 season, Newberry toured throughout the United States with her concert entitled, Night at the Opera and Spirit Moving Spirituals which is dedicated to her late parents.
Newberry’s 2017/18 performance season included tours of her concerts entitled, Night at the Opera, Evening of Opera, Spirit Moving Spirituals and German Liederabend with Spirituals.