Michelle Mariposa

Michelle Mariposa is a Filipino-Chinese mezzo-soprano whose mission as an artist is to communicate truth and beauty through music, poetry, and rhetoric. She is a winner of the 2023 Sullivan Award from the Sullivan Foundation. An enthusiast for new and underperformed music, Michelle is currently a young artist with the Chicago Opera Theater and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. This fall, Michelle will cover Podtochina and the Old Countess in Shostakovich’s The Nose with Chicago Opera Theater. Earlier in the 2023-2024 season, Michelle made her debut with Haymarket Opera as part of the ensemble in Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina. Michelle was recently an Apprentice Artist for Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 season, where she covered P