OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Ripley Lucas-Tagliani is a native New Yorker. For the 2023 season, Ripley is excited to be a studio artist with Opera NEO covering the role of Aspasia in Mozart's Mitridate. In 2022, she was a Manetti Shrem Opera Fellow at Festival Napa Valley and a Young Artist at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. Her roles include (Venus) Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at Manhattan School Music, (Helena) A Midsummer’s Dream of Song, an innovative all immersive project, (Lidochka) Moscow Cheryomushki by Shostakovich* at MSM and (Donna Elvira) Don Giovanni* at The Savannah Voice Festival.
She has performed in a wide range of scene work. Ripley curated and performed in WOMEN, an evening of vocal and instrumental chamber works by women composers performed by all female musicians in 2019. She was the honored soprano soloist at the 43rd National Italian American Foundation Gala in Washington D.C., a Voyage of Discovery Scholarship recipient, held the MSM Licia Albanese Scholarship in 2020 and 2021, and in 2022 received the named Stan Sesser Commencement Award awarded to an artist with extraordinary potential for a career in opera upon receiving her Master of Music.
*Cancelled due to COVID-19
