MICHELLE MARIPOSA
Mezzo-soprano
Filipino-Chinese mezzo-soprano Michelle Mariposa, a Grand Finals Winner of the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and Winner of the 2023 Sullivan Foundation Award, has been praised for her “rich, powerful mezzo” (Parterre Box), “quicksilver coloratura…and spellbinding dramatic energy.” (Washington Post)
Michelle’s 24/25 season includes debuts with the Washington National Opera in Gods & Mortals: A Celebration of Wagner (Waltraute), The Jungle Book (Raksha), Mud Girl (Poly 2), and The R(e)volution of Steve Jobs (Teacher). Michelle returns to the Opera Theater of Saint Louis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hippolyta), and makes her German debut in concerts with the International Meistersinger Akademie.