About
Mezzo Soprano Rachel DiBlasio is a singing-actor interested in art as the mirror in which we both see ourselves as we are and as we wish to become. Rachel is excited by both traditional and contemporary work, cross-genre collaboration, and intimate theater spaces.
Rachel was co-producer of Kate Soper’s opera theater work Here Be Sirens in the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe Festival where they performed the role of Polyxo. Here Be Sirens was produced by Ex Anima Artists for the Philly Fringe Festival as a chamber opera within an art installation.
In 21-22, Rachel sang in a collaboration between the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the American Repertory Ballet as a fairy in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia’s premier of Andrea Clearfield’s Beyond the Binary at The Fillmore and performed a monologue during the event.
In 20-21, she received the General Curation Prize for her performance and artistic direction of Lembit Beecher’s “Stay Asleep” as a short film in Opera MODO’s Aria competition. Rachel was also one of the 24 semi-finalists in the 2020 Rochester International Vocal Competition .
Previous roles include Annina (La Traviata), Armelinde (Cendrillon), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Gerry (Non Motus), Meg March (Little Women), Penelope (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), La Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), Zona (Earth Girls Named Molly).
Dream Roles Include: Romeo (I Capuletti e i Montecchi), Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Dodo (Breaking the Waves), Mignon (Mignon), Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice), and Peter Pan
2016 B.A. Music Westminster Choir College
2020 M.M. Vocal Performance Temple University
Teachers: Amy Owens, Dr. Kathryn Leemhuis, Katherine Johnson
