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MICHELLE MARIPOSA, mezzo-soprano
Michelle Mariposa is a Filipino-Chinese mezzo-soprano who is passionate about communicating truth and beauty through music, poetry, and rhetoric. An enthusiast for new and underperformed music, Mariposa is currently a young artist with the Chicago Opera Theater and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. In the fall of 2023, Mariposa made her debut with Haymarket Opera as part of the ensemble in Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina. Mariposa was recently an Apprentice Artist for Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 season, where she covered the role of Pastore 3 in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Recent roles include Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina, the title role in Menotti's The Medium, Third Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and the Medium in the Midwest premiere of Chris Cerrone’s In a Grove. As a resident artist of Teatro Nuovo in the Summer of 2022, Mariposa covered the role of Calbo in Rossini’s rarely performed Maometto Secondo. In concert, Mariposa was recently one of the eight soloists in Berio’s Sinfonia with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, and the alto soloist in Handel’s The Messiah with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Other concert performances include Bernstein’s Mass with the Orchestra of Music Makers, Beethoven's Symphony no. 9, and Bach's Magnificat. As a recitalist, Mariposa has performed works such as Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Das Buch der hängenden Gärten. |
Additionally, Mariposa enjoys programming music from her native Philippines, and has performed recitals of Filipino chamber music as a young artist of the FilAm Music Foundation NFP, under pianist Victor Asuncion.
Mariposa has concertized in the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Austria, South Korea, and the United States.
Mariposa made her Carnegie Hall debut as an award winning finalist in the 2023 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition of the Oratorio Society of New York. She was also named honorable mention in the Shreveport Opera 2023 Singer of the Year Competition. In 2022, she won the Jay Sorci Memorial IAET Vocal Scholarship from Casa Italia and the Farwell Award from the Musicians Club of Women. Other achievements include 2nd place in
the 2021 Sugree Charoensook International Music Competition, and 1st place and Best Interpretation of the Contest Piece in the 2019 National Music Competition for Young Artists.
A new music enthusiast, Mariposa has had the pleasure of premiering several works by up and coming Filipino composers such as Jose Buencamino, Jai Saldajeño, and Yanni Robiennol.
Mariposa holds degrees in Psychology and Music from the University of the Philippines. She obtained her Master’s degree in Voice and Opera Performance at Northwestern University.
Mariposa has concertized in the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Austria, South Korea, and the United States.
Mariposa made her Carnegie Hall debut as an award winning finalist in the 2023 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition of the Oratorio Society of New York. She was also named honorable mention in the Shreveport Opera 2023 Singer of the Year Competition. In 2022, she won the Jay Sorci Memorial IAET Vocal Scholarship from Casa Italia and the Farwell Award from the Musicians Club of Women. Other achievements include 2nd place in
the 2021 Sugree Charoensook International Music Competition, and 1st place and Best Interpretation of the Contest Piece in the 2019 National Music Competition for Young Artists.
A new music enthusiast, Mariposa has had the pleasure of premiering several works by up and coming Filipino composers such as Jose Buencamino, Jai Saldajeño, and Yanni Robiennol.
Mariposa holds degrees in Psychology and Music from the University of the Philippines. She obtained her Master’s degree in Voice and Opera Performance at Northwestern University.