Praised as a “vibrant lyric soprano” (Opera Wire) with “a beautiful, expressive voice” (Opera Gene) American soprano Viviana Aurelia Goodwin is a rising talent.

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Currently she resides in Washington D.C., where she is a member of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera. She has enjoyed summer festivals with The Glimmerglass Festival (2026 & 2025), Merola Opera Program (2024), and Des Moines Metro Opera (2022 & 2023). She attended Rice University studying with renowned soprano Nova Thomas and Oklahoma City University with Emmy-award winning tenor Jeffrey Picon. She has also studied with Betsy Bishop, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Neil Shicoff.

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In the upcoming 2026/27 season, Ms. Goodwin is looking forward to her role debut as Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo with the Washington National Opera. Prior to the holiday season, Miss Goodwin will debut at The Metropolitan Opera as Litzie at  in the world premiere performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo.

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She is currently concluding her 2025 season with The Glimmerglass Festival in their productions of Madame Butterfly and Oklahoma, performing the role of Virginia and covering Laurey Williams as well as Despina in a new adaptation of Cosi fan tutte. She has also

performed previously as Freida in their run of Sunday in the Park with George that won the 2025 Musical Theatre Award at the International Opera Awards.

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Most recently, she appeared as the title role in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha adapted by Damien Sneed and Kyle Bass and directed by Denyce Graves. In the 2025/26 season she also portrayed Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess all with the Washington

National Opera.

 

She has had the pleasure of notable concert performances with diverse roles and scenes including La bohème (Musetta), Les contes d’Hoffmann (Giulietta), Don Giovanni (Zerlina), L’amico Fritz (Suzel), Le nozze di Figaro (Susanna), Wicked (Glinda), Ragtime (Sarah), and Carousel (Carrie Pipperidge). She has also enjoyed appearances with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony and ROCO Houston Chamber Orchestra. In the 2026/27 season she will debut with the Fort Worth Symphony and as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Fredericksburg Symphony.

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Viviana is a proud native of Tulsa, Oklahoma.