Raved as having the “loveliest of voices,” Singaporean soprano Janani Sridhar is equally at home in opera and on the concert stage. Janani has performed with renowned companies including Singapore Lyric Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Toledo Opera, Opera NEO, LOLA, Fort Worth Opera, and Salt Marsh Opera. Some of her operatic roles include Ortlinde (Die Walküre), Micaëla (Carmen), Alice (Falstaff), Rusalka (Rusalka), Nella (Gianni Schicchi), Musetta (La bohème), Adina (L’elisir d’Amore), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Violetta (La Traviata), and Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann).

Janani’s international concert performances have included Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Schubert’s Mass No. 2, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Bach's Cantata No. 140,  Rutter's Gloria, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. She has collaborated with orchestras in Asia, America, and Europe, including the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Makers, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Stony Brook Baroque Players, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Salt Marsh Opera Orchestra, Des Moines Metro Opera Festival Orchestra, Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, Baroque Artists of Shreveport, and the New England Symphonic Ensemble.

A passionate proponent of contemporary music, Janani has premiered works by American and Singaporean composers. She had the honor of working with composers Jake Heggie and Libby Larsen, and was selected to be a part of Fort Worth Opera's Frontiers festival which showcases new operatic works. At the festival, she had the pleasure of performing in Behold the Man, and The Hatfield-McCoy Triptychs. Janani also had the privilege of creating the role of the Manager in the world premiere of the crossover opera Yeltsin in Texas! by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire.

Janani holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. She is pleased to serve as the Chair of the voice area at DePauw University. Some of Janani’s recent performances include: her debut at Carnegie Hall in Poulenc’s Gloria, Scarlatti’s Christmas Cantata, Bach’s Coffee Cantata, Rutter’s Gloria and Dancing Day as well as a series of recitals in Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, and Louisiana. www.JananiSridhar.com