Erica Brookyser was a member of LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program from 2008 to 2010. She made her Company debut in 2008 as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and also appeared as Waltraute in Die Walkure, Annina in La Traviata and Mercedes in student matinee performances of Carmen. Waltraute in Die Walküre and Annina in La Traviata. She subsequently joined the Staatstheater Darmstadt in Germany where her roles included the title role in Carmen, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Fenena in Nabucco.