“She's always said, ‘You’re going to sing it well.’” “Professor Thomas has always supported me in whatever I wanted to sing,” Feliciano said. In her Playbill biography, Feliciano specifically thanks her Rice voice professor and Thomas Jaber, the university’s director of choral activities and professor of vocal coaching, for “helping her find her voice.” “And there's just something about seeing it on you and having someone fit it to you. “These costumes are so iconic,” she said. She burst into tears during her first costume fitting for Christine, standing next to the same dress Sarah Brightman wore when she performed the legendary role on Broadway beginning in 1988 “The outpouring of love I’ve received is overwhelming,” she said. She called it an “honor and privilege to accomplish one of my dreams with so many people I adore there alongside me.” Feliciano and the rest of the cast of Broadway's "Phantom of the Opera" take a bow following Feliciano's debut covering the role of Christine. She officially joined the show in the role of page and understudy for Christine Daaé and began rehearsals in late spring.įeliciano took the stage in her first performance as Christine June 27 and made history as the first Latina and second Black woman to perform the role.
The role eventually went to Emilie Kouatchou.īut after the limited-run “Flying Over Sunset” closed in January, “Phantom” came calling again. Just months after her Broadway debut in James Lapine’s musical “Flying Over Sunset,” Rice Artist Diploma student Kanisha Feliciano has joined the cast of Broadway’s longest-running musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera.”įeliciano, a student of Rice voice professor Nova Thomas, originally auditioned for the role of Christine Daaé in “Phantom” in 2021, and was one of two finalists out of 4,000 hopefuls.
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