Soprano · Arts Educator · Foster-Youth Advocate

Hadassah Misner

Bringing the power of opera — and access to it — to every community.

A Dallas-based soprano and the Education & Outreach Assistant at The Dallas Opera, with performances on national and international stages and a lifelong commitment to making the arts accessible to all.

Portrait of Hadassah Misner Soprano Photo · Garrett Photography
Profile

About

I’m a Dallas-based soprano and the Education & Outreach Assistant at The Dallas Opera, where I help connect communities with the power of opera. A graduate of Texas Woman’s University, I’ve performed with national and international companies over the past decade — including Opera in Concert in Italy — in roles from Nannetta to Adina.

Alongside the stage, I’ve built a background in arts administration and lesson-studio management — the organisational craft that keeps music running. My commitment to this work is personal: having grown up in foster care and aged out of the system, I believe deeply that access to the arts can transform lives.

What I do

Three pillars

Perform

A classically trained soprano singing opera, recital and concert repertoire on stages at home and abroad.

Educate & Outreach

As Education & Outreach Assistant at The Dallas Opera, helping young people and underserved communities experience the arts.

Advocate

Speaking up for youth in foster care through the National Foster Youth Institute, drawing on my own lived experience.

On stage

Performances

Selected roles

The Cat

Rusalka — Dvořák
Opera Arlington · 2024

Nannetta

Falstaff — Verdi

Amina

La sonnambula — Bellini

Adina

L’elisir d’amore — Donizetti

Miss Pinkerton

The Old Maid and the Thief — Menotti

Training & highlights

Why this work

Advocacy & Lived Experience

Hadassah Misner during Foster Youth Shadow Day at the office of Rep. Yvette D. Clarke
Foster Youth Shadow Day at the office of Rep. Yvette D. Clarke · Washington, D.C., 2019

My advocacy is rooted in lived experience. I grew up in foster care, was separated from my sister, and aged out of the system — so I know how much young people in care need someone to speak up for them. Through the National Foster Youth Institute I travelled to Washington, D.C. for Foster Youth Shadow Day, advocating for reform of the child-welfare system, and I’ve written about my story for The Imprint and the National Foster Parent Association.

Foster Youth Shadow Day

National Foster Youth Institute · Washington, D.C.
2019

Contributing writer

The Imprint & National Foster Parent Association
On foster care & lived experience
Let’s talk

Get in touch

Always happy to discuss performance, arts education and outreach, or advocacy work — or simply to chat about opera and the power of access to the arts.

Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas · Education & Outreach Assistant, The Dallas Opera