Burke, VA
ROLE(S): Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro)
Poised and playful soprano Arianna Rodriguez has been praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “crystalline” for her performance in Merola Opera Program’s 2022 Grand Finale concert. Her performance as Musetta in Opera North’s La bohème was described by the Eagle Times as a “a delight…a brilliant soprano delivering her wit with flair.” While she was an Adler Fellow with San Francisco Opera, Ms. Rodriguez sang the roles of Frasquita in Carmen, Gianetta in L’elisir d’Amore, Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, made her mainstage debut in Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten, and sang the role of Musetta in the company’s production of Bohème out of the Box. Other recent performances include Ask Your Mama, a multimedia work based on poetry by Langston Hughes and originally composed by Laura Karpman for Jessye Norman. Ms. Rodriguez was a District Winner in The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, received encouragement awards from the Vero Beach Opera Rising Star Vocal Competition and Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, and is also a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation.