Ariana Michelle Keller is a young coloratura lyric soprano based in CT with a B.M in Voice Performance from Western Connecticut State University. Ariana began her musical career in her childhood playroom starring in one-woman shows written, choreographed, and designed by none other but herself. The young entrepreneur would even charge for concessions at these performances...the same concessions that her audience members bought earlier that day at the grocery store. Years later, Ariana still finds herself beaming for the same dreams she had in that playroom…

to create; to sing; to perform.

 

Ariana was born in East Lyme, CT in 2001 but spent most of her childhood in Bradenton, FL. Ariana graduated from WCSU in 2023 where she studied voice with Dr. Margaret Astrup and was coached by Andrew Gordon. At WCSU, she was a member of the University Choir, directed by Dr. Jeremy Wiggins, and the Chamber Singers, directed by Dr. Kevin Jay Isaacs. As a member of the WCSU choirs, she joined National Concerts as a chorister for Forever Music at Carnegie Hall in 2022, and returned in 2023 for This is Me at Lincoln Center. She resided as the President of the WCSU Opera Club and has taken part in several of their productions including Donizetti's L’Elisir d’Amore, Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon as Maguelonne, and Mozart's Impresario as Miss Silverpeal. WCSU Opera Scenes roles include Mabel from Pirates of Penzance, Monica from the Medium,Kathie from the Student Prince, and Marie in La fille du Regiment. Most recently, Ariana contined her education by attending the Patti and Allan Herbert Frost School of Music Program in Salzburg, Austria.

 

Ariana has performed and choreographed for Opera Theatre of Connecticut's productions of La Traviata in 2022 and L'Italiana in Algeri in 2023. Ariana often joins the Norwalk Symphony Chorus where she performed concert works such as the Verdi Requiem in 2022 and The Magic Flute in 2023. Ariana made her orchestral soloist debut with the Torrington Symphony Orchestra in their spring 2023 concert, Come Back to Sorrento. Some of Ariana's favorite Musical Theatre credits include Elle Woods in Legally Blonde (NMTC), Guys and Dolls (DTC), and Elf (Seven Angels Theatre). In addition to theatrical and concert work, Ariana maintains expertise in sacred music as the soprano cantor for Basilica of Immaculate Conception in Waterbury, CT. 

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