ARTIST'S MISSION
Ripley believes in the power of communication through classical music. Communing with audiences through story telling is a central pillar of her artistic identity. She strives to be seen as an advocate for underrepresented female composers and raise awareness of their beautiful music.
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.
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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. and a Voyage of Discovery Scholarship recipient. At the Manhattan School of Music, she received the Licia Albanese Scholarship in 2020 and 2021, and in 2022 received the Stan Sesser Commencement Award awarded to an artist with extraordinary potential for a career in opera upon receiving her Master of Music.
Ripley has performed in a variety of scene work including Manon (Manon), Rigoletto (Gilda), Viardot’s Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin), I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Giulietta), Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira), La Bohème (Musetta), Don Pasquale (Norina), Falstaff (Nannetta), Candide (Cunegonde), Naughty Marietta (Marietta), Ciboulette (Ciboulette), and Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice).
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Her highlighted concert work includes singing as a soprano soloist in Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music with Joshua Bell, featuring in Kenneth Merrill’s Collaborative Piano/Singer seminar, and performing in Daphnis et Chloe with the NY Philharmonic Orchestra at David Geffen Hall. She has also sung as part of the Opera under the Arch summer concert series.
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Ms. Lucas-Tagliani has performed in master classes with Anthony Roth Costanzo, Warren Jones, Mira Zakai, Harolyn Blackwell, Sherrill Milnes, and Matthew Rose. She received the R. Sybil Mandel Memorial Vocal Scholarship Music Award in addition to six other music awards, including the Father Fame Vocal Scholarship Award upon graduation from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
