the San Francisco Opera during the late 1990s up to the present day. Among the many appearances she has made with the company are Mathilde in William Tell (1997), the title role in Luisa Miller (2000), the title role in Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa (2001), Violetta (2001), Desdemona in Otello (2002), Liù (2002), and several performance of Cio-Cio San from 2005 through 2008 among other roles. In 2000 Racette made her debut at La Scala as Ellen Orford and her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Jenůfa. She has since returned to Chicago numerous time to portray such roles as Mimì, Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust, Micaëla, Liù, and Madame Lidoine. In 2005 she made her first appearance at the Los Angeles Opera as Cio-Cio San. In 2016, Racette made her role debut in Poulenc's La voix humaine for her first appearance at the Chicago Opera Theater. Other notable opera companies with which Racette has appeared include the Washington National Opera, the San Diego Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Teatro Comunale, Florence, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Bavarian State Opera, the Royal Opera, London, and Opera Australia. She has also performed in operas at the Saito Kinen Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Recordings Verdi's I lombardi 1997 CD with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Tobias Picker's Emmeline 1998 CD with George Manahan and the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree 2005 CD with Patrick Summers and the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra Britten's Peter Grimes 2008 DVD with Donald Runnicles and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge 2010 CD with James Conlon and the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra Puccini's Madama Butterfly 2011 DVD with Patrick Summers and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Diva on Detour 2013 CD live recording with accompanist Craig Terry of an intimate evening of songs from Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Édith Piaf Corigliano's - The Ghosts of Versailles 2016 CD with James Conlon and the Los Angeles Opera. PENTATONE PTC 5186538 Personal life Racette has been pictured on the cover of Opera News in June 2002, December 2005 and October 2009. She was also on the cover of the February 2006 edition of the Lesbian News and was featured in the September 2002 edition of The Advocate. She has been known to silence critics with her pointed