Ms. Vikse’s performances of Mozart’s Missa Brevis and Handel’s Messiah, performed at the Cathedral in Orveito, Italy was for Italian Television. In addition, she sang Pergolesi’s Stabat Matter with the Narnia Arts Festival. She also participated in Comfort Ye, a NY Cares Fundraising with other performers including Metropolitan Opera singers Mark Delavan and Carl Tanner at Symphony Space in New York City.

1. American Mezzo-Soprano Maariana Vikse
AmericanMezzo-SopranoMaarianaVikse isaninternational,award-winningoperasingerandbreast
cancer survivor. She made her debut in the role of Carmen with the Teatropera Festival Opera
CompanyinTolentino,Italy andwhilethere she alsosangariasand duets, including selections from
Samson et Dalila, for Fiorenza Cossotto's 80th birthday.
Ms. Vikse's performances of Mozart's Missa Brevis and Handel's Messiah, performed at the
Cathedral inOrveito,ItalywasforItalianTelevision. In addition, she sang Pergolesi's Stabat Matter
withthe NarniaArts Festival. She alsoparticipatedinComfortYe, aNY CaresFundraising with other
performersincludingMetropolitan Operasingers MarkDelavan and Carl Tanner at Symphony Space
in New York City.
She has also performed with Opus Opera and New York Lyric Opera including concert versions of
Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, andLesContesd'Hoffmann. OtherrolesincludeTessainThe Gondoliers,
Melissa inPrincess Ida, Lady Angela in Patience, and Kate in The Pirates of Penzance, at many
prestigious venues including City Center, the Mann Center, Wolf Trap and with the Buffalo
Philharmonic with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players.