American mezzo-soprano Arielle Rogers-Wilkey is a New England native, currently attending Boston University for an M.M. in vocal performance. Opera credits include Kate, The Pirates of Penzance and Katisha, The Mikado, Opera Providence; La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi and Ensemble, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and Le Nozze di Figaro, Salt Marsh Opera. She has done extensive work with Boston Lyric Opera as Mary, Omar; Gertrude, Romeo and Juliet; and Ensemble, Madama Butterfly, Champion, La bohème, Norma, Pagliacci, and A Handmaid’s Tale. Ms. Rogers-Wilkey took part in Odyssey Opera’s production and album recording of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which received a Grammy Award nomination. With OperaHub in Boston, she was honored to portray Sissieretta Jones in the world premiere of DIVAS, an operatic play with an all-female cast.

Oratorio and orchestral solo credits include Handel’s Messiah, Schubert’s Magnificat, and Vivaldi’s Gloria; as well as Carmen, Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra’s Operatic Highlights; a Juneteenth concert series with Castle of Our Skins and Boston Lyric Opera; and the participatory educational concert Link Up! with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Rogers-Wilkey was recently seen as Maurya in Riders to the Sea, and Almera in Dark Sisters at Boston University. You can see Arielle next in BLO's Carousel and as the Principessa in the BUOI production of Suor Angelica.