Kristina Riegle is quickly establishing herself as an exciting and engaging singing actor on the opera, theatre and concert stages. Recent credits include CHILDREN OF EDEN in Concert at The Kennedy Center featuring an all-star Broadway cast, directed and choreographer by Tony Award nominee Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Other notable credits include Mark Adamo’s LITTLE WOMEN (Jo), LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Cherubino), A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Desirée Armfeldt), CARMEN (Mércèdes), ALCINA (Ruggiero), WEST SIDE STORY (Consuelo), RAGTIME (Kathleen/Ensemble), LA TRAVIATA (Flora), THE MERRY WIDOW (Olga), and COSI FAN TUTTE (Dorabella).
A sought after concert performer, Ms. Riegle has appeared as a featured soloist with a diverse array of companies and festivals, such as Opera Providence, Cape Cod Opera, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Tapestry Opera, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, New England Light Opera, National Broadway Chorus and Opera on Tap. She has also performed on-stage with Opera Camerata of Washington DC, Reagle Music Theatre, Fiddlehead Theatre Company, Boston Opera Collaborative, and Opera Boston.
Ms. Riegle enjoys the process of developing new work. This summer, she was Thetis in A FIRE IN WATER with Silver Finch Arts Collective on DC’s Capital Fringe Festival and Madeline Usher in the World Premier of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER: A NEW MUSICAL with Pallas Theatre Collective. In October 2013 she sang in the World Premier of Christopher Theofanidis’ Virtue with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2013, she was seen as Francesca in the Development Workshop of ENCHANTED APRIL directed by Robert Pullen and Stephen Brotebeck at Arena Stage, and as Princess Marguerite in a staged reading of the new musical ONE MORE NIGHT for the Kennedy Center Page To Stage Festival. Other recent work includes developing the role of Susan in a reading of the new noir opera LADY ORCHID by composer Dan Shore, and portraying Monsieur de Bressac in two staged readings of MARQUIS DE SADE’S ‘JUSTINE’ by Meron Langsner and Silvia Graziano.
Upcoming engagements include making her Washington National Opera debut in the Ensemble of Wagner’s DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER and covering the role of Suzuki in Opera Camerata of Washington DC’s production of Puccini’s MADAMA BUTTERFLY.
Ms. Riegle holds a M.M. in Vocal Performance from The Boston Conservatory, and B.A. degrees in Music and Biology, as well as an Artist Certificate in Vocal Performance from the College of Charleston. She currently resides in the DC area and is a Co-Founder/Director of Opera on Tap DC Metro.
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