artistic director
Professor in the Practice of Voice. Chair of the voice and opera department, Doris Yarick-Cross has appeared with major opera companies in the United States, including the San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, and New York City operas, as well as companies in Europe, Australia, and Canada.
She spent sixteen years in Germany, where she sang leading roles in major opera houses. She has sung with the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Quebec, Toronto, and San Francisco, and with the New York Philharmonic. She is well known as a recitalist and has appeared in hundreds of concerts across the country.
Before coming to Yale in 1983, she served on the faculty of the University of Texas and was head of the voice department at the University of Connecticut.