Florida native Ronnita Nicole Miller is in her first season of LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program. Her appearances with the Company this season include performances as the Abbess in Suor Angelica and Schwertleite in Die Walküre. Next season, she will return as Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. She is an alumna of the Juilliard Opera Center where she appeared as Háta in The Bartered Bride, the Mother in L'enfant et les sortilèges, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Public Opinion in Orfée aux enfers. Ms. Miller was the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by James DePreist as part of The Juilliard School's 2007 Commencement Concert. With the prestigious Wolf Trap Opera Company she sang Ascalax in the North American premiere of Telemann's Orpheus, Ragonde in Le Comte Ory, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Prison Matron in John Musto's Volpone, and Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte. At Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall she appeared as the alto soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the New York Symphonic Ensemble and performed the role of Mrs. Horn in the world premiere of Rain, by Richard Owen, Sr. At Carnegie Hall, Ms. Miller made her debut singing with the Weill Music Institute and Orchestra of St. Luke's in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the MusicLink Program in 2005. At Merola Opera Program of San Francisco Opera she sang the roles of Tisbe in La Cenerentola and the Old Prioress in Dialogues of the Carmelites in the Yerba Buena Gardens Scenes Concert in the summer of 2005. She also recently appeared in recital as part of the Whitcomb Foundation's 2006 Recital Series. Ms. Miller received her Master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music where she performed the role of Ursule in Béatrice et Bénédict, and her Bachelor's degree at the University of South Florida where she sang Fidalma in Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Dido, Queen of Carthage in Dido and Aeneas, and the Princess in Suor Angelica. She is a recipient of the Samuel Robinson Music Scholarship, Manhattan School of Music Scholarship, the Anna Case McKay Scholarship, Juilliard Opera Scholarship, and a Whitcomb Foundation Grant and won the University of Miami Recital Competition.