Mezzo-soprano Ronnita Nicole Miller is in her second season with the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at LA Opera, where her appearances include the Abbess (Suor Angelica), Schwertleite (Die Walküre) and Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. An alumna of the Merola Opera Program, she is a graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center, where she appeared as Háta (The Bartered Bride), the Mother (L'enfant et les Sortilèges), Hippolyta (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Public Opinion (Orpheus in the Underworld). With Wolf Trap Opera, she performed Ascalax in the North American premiere of Telemann's Orpheus, Ragonde (Le Comte Ory), Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro), the Prison Matron (Musto's Volpone), and the Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte). At Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall she appeared in Mozart's Requiem with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and performed Mrs. Horn in the world premiere of Richard Owen's Rain. She will return to LA Opera this summer as Flosshilde (Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung) and she will make her San Francisco Opera debut in 2011 as Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried and as the First Norn in Götterdämmerung.