“Luminous” soprano, Dawna Rae Warren has established herself as an incredibly versatile performer. She brings a knack for captivating storytelling and musical sensitivity to all of her repertoire: Opera, New Music, Baroque Music, Jazz, and Golden Age Musical Theater.

Her most recent credits include: Handel’s Alceste, Musetta in La Boheme, Lady with a Hand Mirror in Postcard from Morocco, Violetta (cover) in La Traviata, Abigail Williams in Robert Ward's The Crucible, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Barbarina in Figaro in Four Quartets, Atalanta in Serse, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and The First Wood Sprite in Rusalka .

A champion of living composers, Dawna Rae has been a collaborator in Cleveland Opera Theater’s New Opera Works Festival for several years where she has premiered pieces such as Griffin Candey’s Bernarda Alba (Adela) and Dawn Sonntag’s Verlorene Heimat (Hedwig).

On the concert stage she has been seen in Handel's Messiah, Faure’s Requiem, St. Matthew's Passion, St. John's Passion, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem.

Currently, Dawna Rae is based in Cleveland, Ohio. She obtained her Artist Diploma at CU Boulder, her Master’s Degree at the University of Kentucky and her Bachelor’s Degree at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.