After runs in Tech musicals Hair, The Wiz, and Grease, La Toya Lewis ’01 graduated thinking, “If I could perform on that stage, I can perform on any stage in the world.”

Those stages, so far in her career, include the Metropolitan Opera, Radio City Music Hall, Citi Field, and Houston Grand Opera House during a national 10-city tour with Wynton Marsalis.

Lewis didn’t sing opera until college, but she blossomed into the genre. For the Met, the classically trained soprano has performed in the chorus of Porgy and Bess and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

She leads the PAL Cops and Kids Chorus founded by TV
star Tony Danza, which is how she got to Radio City (with the Rockettes), as well as to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting. She has performed lead roles in local New York City opera groups.