Staff & Guest Artists

Sun-Ly Pierce

Mezzo-Soprano (Guest Instructor)

Sun-Ly’s 25/26 season begins with her return to The Metropolitan Opera for the world premiere of Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Rosa Saks) conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and directed by Bartlett Sher. Other highlights of the season include debuts at LA Opera for Akhnaten (Nefertiti), Semperoper Dresden and The Santa Fe Opera for Madama Butterfly (Suzuki), Madison Opera for Così fan tutte(Dorabella) as well as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Théâtre de Caen for La Calisto (Diana). Future seasons include returns to Houston Grand Opera and The Santa Fe Opera in leading roles.

During the 24/25 season, Sun-Ly returned to several notable theaters including The Metropolitan Opera in Le nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), Opera Philadelphia in L’amant anonyme (Dorothée), and Des Moines Metro Opera in The Cunning Little Vixen (Fox). On the concert stage, she debuted with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Messiah, the Britt Festival Orchestra for Ravel’s Shéhérazade, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic in Madama Butterfly (Suzuki). She also returned to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Die Walküre (Siegrune) under the baton of Music Director Fabio Luisi.

She has won top prizes in the Marilyn Horne Song Competition, Dallas Opera National Vocal Competition, and Butler Opera International Voice Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition and a Vocal Fellow at the Music Academy of the West. She was also an Encouragement Winner in the New England Region of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. A native of Clinton, New York, she holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Bard College Conservatory of Music.