Media
Discography
Albums can be purchased or streamed on multiple platforms: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and Youtube Music.
Where the Sunsets Bleed
The Chamber Music of Edward Knight
Albany Records
The Gershwin’s: Porgy & Bess
By George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Decca Records
Gershwin: Selections from Porgy and Bess Blue Monday
Telarc International
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Albums and music can be purchased or streamed on multiple platforms: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and Youtube Music.
Pictured here for their work on the Opera America Songbook, Marvin Mills, Marquita Lister and Marc A. Scorca (not pictured) The piece is called “Unending Story.”
Robert Sims and Friends in Masters of the Spiritual
Lincoln Center in NYC
Composers: Lena McLin, Roland Carter and Jacqueline Hairston Singers: Cynthia Clarey, Marquita Lister, Hope Briggs, Chauncey Packer, Kenneth Overton, Kevin Thompson, Alison Buchanan, Shawnette Sulker, Phillip Harris, Robert Sims, George Shirley, Lucia Bradford, and Louise Toppin Pianist: Joseph Joubert, Paul Hamilton and Byron Burford-Phearse
The OPERA America Songbook
OPERA America commemorated the opening of its National Opera Center in 2002 by inviting 70 composers to write a song commemorating a new home. Her piece in this collection is called “Unending Story” by Marquita Lister, Marvin Mills and Marc A. Scorca.
The OPERA America Songbook
Vocal Collection of 46 art songs by some of today's most prominent composers, including Mark Adamo, Richard Danielpour, Ricky Ian Gordon, Daron Hagen, Aaron Jay Kernis, Lori Laitman, Ben Moore, Paul Moravec, Nico Muhly, John Musto, Tarik O'Regan, Thomas Pasatieri, Michael Torke, and others.
Live Performances
Marquita Lister has sung with major opera companies such as the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Montreal Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, La Scala, Semperoper Dresden, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Arena di Verona, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera Bastille Paris, Michigan Opera Theater, to name a few. She has performed with world renowned artists, including Placido Domingo, Justino Diaz, Frederica Von Stade, Simon Estes, Sherrill Milnes and Marcello Giordani.
George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Lincoln Center Production
Leoncavallo. I PAGLIACCI.
Domínguez, Lister, Rucker, Mattsey.
Costa Mesa, Cal.
Macbeth
Lucio Gallo and Marquita Lister
"Perchè non vai a letto?
Mark Rucker and Marquita Lister
In the News
Professional Publication Features
Opera News, August 2022
The Afro (Maryland), Spring 2016
Pan Pipes, Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Spring 2012
Eighth Annual Diva Issue, Opera News, October 2009
Gli Amici delle Musica (Italy), June 2006
Orpheus (Germany), March/April 2006
Classical Singer, April 2006
Opera News, February 2003
Diva Issue, Opera News, November 2002
Opera News, July 2001
National News Articles
2016
“New musical work, 'Mother's Lament,' confronts deaths of young black men”
by Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun
National and International Television Broadcast
“Live at Lincoln Center,” New York City Opera, PBS
“An Evening at the Pops,” Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, PBS
“A Christmas Celebration,” Dallas Symphony Orchestra, KAS-TV
“Broadway Musical Awards: A Tribute to Liza Manelli, “ARTE and RTО Netherlands
and throughout Europe
“Divas Get Down” at Studio 54
Youtube Live
National Radio Broadcasts
Close-up Radio with host Doug Llewelyn (six segments)
“Metro Connection” with host Rebecca Sheir, WAMU Radio
Salome, Michigan Opera Theater, WWFM Radio
Numerous NPR broadcasts