ABOUT ARIANNA

Arianna recently graduated with a Masters in Music (Vocal Performance and Opera) from the Mannes School of Music in NYC. In the 2022/23 season, Arianna made her debut with Long Island Lyric Opera covering the role of Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. With Mannes Opera, she sang “Pane” in Cavalli’s La Calisto. She also joined Classic Lyric Arts for a second summer season, performing in a series of concerts first in Great Barrington, MA and then around the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

In 2021/22, Arianna made her debut in Italy as a soloist in the Festival Internazionale di Mezza Estate with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese in Tagliacozzo, Italy, singing as “Rosina” in excerpts of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and as “Maddalena” in excerpts of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” She also sang with Classic Lyric Arts in Novafeltria, Italy, with whom she performed in a series of concerts around the Emilia-Romagna region. At Mannes, she sang the world premiere of “morphine,” a song cycle for mezzo soprano written by William Cowie, as well as scenes from Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Menotti’s The Consul, Flotow’s Martha, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Rossini’s Guillome Tell.

Previous opera performances include “Despina” in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with both Opera NexGen and Lowell House Opera. Arianna made her Boston Symphony Hall debut with the Boston Pops singing two arias by Randall Eng, including the world premiere of former United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s poem, “Harbor,” set to music. She had the tremendous honor of singing an aria for Harvard University’s 2019 Commencement Speaker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, by invitation of the university. Arianna made her Feinstein’s/54 Below debut as a soloist in the fifth annual “Harvard-Yale Cantata” concert, singing “Maria” in an excerpt from Bernstein’s West Side Story.

Arianna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology track) from Harvard University. She has a keen interest in the intersection between singing and psychology, and conducted her undergraduate thesis research entitled, “The Song Manipulation Task: Linking Musical Form to Social Functions of Song” in collaboration with the Harvard Evolutionary Psychology Lab and the Harvard Music Lab. Throughout her undergraduate career, she enjoyed a close relationship with Harvard College Opera, performing the title role in in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Adele in Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Anne Trulove (cover) in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. She also sang as a featured soloist in a concert of Handel’s Judas Maccabeus with the Harvard University Choir.

Arianna also has a background in (and a deep love for) musical theatre. She made her American Repertory Theater Club OBERON debut performing Cinderella in an immersive production of Sondheim’s Into the Woods. She also performed often with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players, singing Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Phoebe Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard, Rose Maybud in Ruddigore, and Cousin Hebe in H.M.S. Pinafore. Previous musical theatre credits include Jenny Lind in Barnum, Cosette in Les Misèrables, Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes, Daisy Hilton in SideShow, Paulette in Legally Blonde, and Julia Sullivan in The Wedding Singer. She was also a member of Harvard’s oldest treble jazz a cappella group, The Radcliffe Pitches, with whom she toured the US, China, Japan, South Korea, and Bermuda.

Arianna is originally from Long Island, NY. She is currently based in New York City. For more information about taking voice lessons with Arianna, please see her studio page.