In 2003 Cambridge won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, becoming the competition's youngest Grand Prize winner ever.
In 2003 Cambridge won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, while still a student at The Curtis Institute of Music, becoming the competition's youngest Grand Prize winner ever.
[5] The Grand Prize gained her entrance into the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, as well as $15,000 to further her education and career.
[1][3][10][8][5] That year she appeared in Washington for the first time as a professional, as Adina in L'elisir d'amore with the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
[3] The Washington Post wrote: Cambridge ... was radiant, vocally assured, dramatically subtle and compelling and artistically imaginative.
She was able to imbue long, pregnant pauses in her lines with the same intensity that accompanied her coloratura passages and, even when the chorus was most out of sync with the orchestra ... she was absolutely on the beat.
[15]In 2004 Cambridge made her Met debut as Frasquita in Georges Bizet's Carmen, and was noted by Anne Midgette of The New York Times for her "powerful, clear voice".
[9][16] She has since appeared in several roles with that company, including Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Karolka in Jenůfa, Crobyle in Thaïs, and Bianca in La Rondine.
[4] In 2014 she performed on the "Soul Train Music Awards" on BET, in the "2014 Christmas Concert for the Troops" at the Kennedy Center, and before the United States Supreme Court in a recital sponsored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
[18][19] Reviewer Sarah Downs wrote in New York Theatre Guide: "Cambridge ... possesses a stunning, richly hued voice that she has to stifle at times to match the performance level of the other singers," while theater critic Charles Isherwood wrote in Broadway News that her "vibrant soprano is lovely to hear — and, swathed in a rather complicated sexy-glam gown ... she also looks gorgeous.
"[20][21] In February 2010, her debut recording with pianist Lydia Brown, From the Diary of Sally Hemings (about the slave who was thought to be the mistress of Thomas Jefferson) was released on the White Pine Music label.
[1] In September 2018, her third album, Sisters in Song, with soprano Nicole Cabell and the Lake Forest Symphony, will be released by Cedille Records.