Donna Ames has been a frequent guest artist with Arizona Opera, Portland Opera Repertory Theater, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Marin Opera, and Chautauqua Opera performing the roles of Carmen, Suzuki (Madama Butterfly,) Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors,) and Hansel to critical acclaim.  Miss Ames has also had the pleasure of premiering many original works at Chautauqua opera and the New York University Summer Opera Theater. She can be heard on the Dido and Aeneas recording by Boston Baroque on the Telarc label.

Miss Ames has sung concert repertoire such as the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, the Verdi Requiem, the Mozart Masses, Alexander Nevsky, Vaughn Williams’s Serenade to Music, and the Mass in B Minor with the Boston Civic Symphony, the Southern Arizona Symphony, Phoenix Bach and Madrigal Society, and the Wellesley Symphony.

Miss Ames was a recipient of the William Matthews Sullivan Career Preparation Grant as well as being a three time Metropolitan Opera Council Audition award winner.  Upon winning the San Francisco Opera Auditions, she was chosen to participate in the coveted Merola Opera Program with San Francisco Opera.

Since turning her attentions to teaching, Miss Ames has taught talented voice students through the Rivers Music School where she is the Voice Faculty Chair.  Many of these students are now pursuing music degrees at major universities and conservatories throughout the United States.  Her students have been first place winners of the Boston NATS Song festival.  She recently has joined the faculty of Bridgewater State College where she is delighted to begin an Opera Scenes Ensemble in the fall of 2007.