Briana Moynihan
Mezzo-Soprano
| Years at Source: | 2015, 2016 |
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| Biography: | Minnesota native and mezzo-soprano Briana Moynihan enjoys a regional career in opera, art song, chamber music, and cabaret. In 2020, Briana was slated to join Des Moines Metro Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Juno in Platée and performing scenes from La Clemenza di Tito, Albert Herring, and Cendrillon. She was also a troupe member in OPERA Iowa, Des Moines Metro Opera’s touring outreach program. In 2019, Briana made her debut with Journey North Opera Company as Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia and as a performer in OperaTease. As a Baumgartner Studio Artist with Florentine Opera in their 2018-2019 Season, she performed Lady Meresvale in Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, Cherubino in The Three Little Pigs, and was a featured soloist in the company’s 85th Anniversary Concert: Opera’s Greatest Hits. While earning a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she performed in Bright Eyed Joy, a cabaret of songs by Ricky Ian Gordon, sang in the ensemble of Gordon’s Intimate Apparel with Opera Fusion: New Works, performed in Tom Cipullo’s The Husbands, and portrayed La Zelatrice and La Ciesca in a double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. |
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| Source Moment: | I always enjoyed meeting and interacting with the composers who have been part of the Source Song Festival. We are so lucky to have a large and vibrant community of talented composers in Minnesota. |