Kresley Figueroa, soprano, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is earning her B.M. in Vocal Performance at The Juilliard School where she studies with Marlena Malas. She has won the American Prize and Winston Rabb Vocal Scholarship competitions and was a National Young Arts Foundation Silver Medalist. Ms. Figueroa has also been featured on NPR’s From The Top and co-hosted their annual gala in 2015. Most recently she has appeared as Adina in a concerted version of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore at the Music Academy of the West, Papagena in Mozart’s Die Zaubeflöte as well as the female lead, Fiona, in Brigadoon at the Chautauqua Institute in 2016.
