A versatile singing actress, Darla has performed across the US and abroad in concert, opera, music theatre and cabaret.
Companies include San Francisco Symphony, Portland Opera, Connecticut Opera, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Festival Opera, Opera Barga (Italy), Theatreworks, George Coates, American Opera Projects at Lincoln Center and many others.
Recent highlights include Oakland East Bay Symphony's Follies -
with Rita Moreno, Val Diamond & Sharon McKnight and her debut with San Francisco Symphony in Le Rossignol,
conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
She has also performed the role of Nefertiti in Oakland Opera Theatre's West Coast premiere of Philip Glass' Akhnaten - called "one of the musical events of the year" by the San Francisco Chronicle - the title role in The Rape of Lucretia with San Francisco Lyric Opera and Mrs. Soames in the West Coast Premiere of Ned Rorem's new opera
Our Town with Festival Opera.
Her solo act premiered this year and performs regularly in clubs and venues around the Bay Area. Darla is co-creator of the cabaret group Girlkulture and has performed at the Florence Gould Theatre for the internationally acclaimed Art Deco Exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum, as well as the DNA Lounge, Bruno's, Amnesia, the Odeon, Larkspur Café, the Purple Onion and many other venues.