Throughout her career, Ms. Wood has been involved in many different areas of the entertainment world. She has performed as a back up singer for Sting in his NYC XM Radio Concert, as a soprano soloist in Universal Studios Japan Christmas Concerts, in commercials for Sprint/Nextel, concert engagements as the soprano soloists with the Singapore Symphony in Handel’s Messiah and as a soloist with Pittsburgh’s River City Brass Band.
Other noteworthy engagements have included her portrayals of Dorine in The Skylight Opera Theater’s production of Tartuffe; Lucy in Opera Omaha’s production of Threepenny Opera and the Narrator in the world premiere of Gershon Kingsley’s Raoul at the Goethe Institute, NYC. She has performed with the Santa Fe Opera in their apprentice scenes and has spent four summers with The Utah Festival Opera Company in such roles as The Baker's Wife in Into The Woods, Electra in Gypsy, Susan in Desert Song, Lizette in Naughty Marietta, where her comic performance was compared to the late Madeline Kahn (Herald Journal, Logan, Utah), Madeline in Face on the Barroom Floor, Belle in Thea Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol with Virginia Opera, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw with The Chautauqua Vocal Institute, Elisetta in Il Matrimonio Segreto with The Manhattan Opera Theater, Maria in West Side Story, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with The Brevard Music Festival and Magda in The Consul, Amelia in Amelia Goes to the Ball at Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Wood received her Bachelors of Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and was the winner of the Concerto Competition. She went on to receive her Masters of Music from The Manhattan School of Music where she was awarded the Richard F. Gold Career Grant.
When not performing, Danielle Hermon Wood enjoys teaching masterclasses on “Preparation, Presentation and Performance” classes to high school students, as well as voice lessons to all ages. She resides in New York City with her husband tenor, Brandon Wood, and their two dogs, Annie and Bubba.
