Operatic spinto soprano Joanna Parisi, was born in New York of Italian heritage and is a citizen of both United States and Italy. Joanna graduated with honors from The Conservatory of Music at Purchase, State University of New York. She has received awards and recognition from prestigious opera and musical organizations including Operalia, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, and Shreveport Opera.
In March 2016, she was named one of “The Next Generation of Great Opera Singers” by WQXR Classical. In 2015 she sang Lucrezia Borgia. Throughout 2016, her performances in Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro Antico di Taormina in Sicily were shown worldwide and featured at the Berlinale International Film Festival.
She sang Floria Tosca throughout four theaters in Switzerland: Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Vevey and Porrentruy.

She also sang Leonora in Il trovatore at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City in both the 2014 and 2013 seasons. She also sang Micaëla in Carmen at Teatro Amazonas in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup. She sang Elisabetta di Valois in Don Carlo with great success in Neuchâtel and Fribourg, Switzerland. She sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at Teatro Solis with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Montevideo. She sang in concert in Beijing, China at the National Center of the Performing Arts conducted by Plácido Domingo for Operalia.
Joanna made her professional opera debut as the title role of Puccini’s Tosca in Central Park, New York City. She has since performed Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco in Union Square-Washington Irving Auditorium, and the title role of Aidain Central Park with the Orchestra of New York Grand Opera. She also sang Andrea Chenier (Maddalena) in concert in the Carnegie Hall towers, and Verdi and verismo recitals in the Weill recital hall. She sang the Puccini heroines Tosca and Mimi in La Boheme at the Enrico Fermi Italian Cultural Center in New York.