“Maariana Vikse gave a lovely performance as Melissa.” Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

 

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.  She has also performed with Opus Opera and New York Lyric Opera including concert versions of Rigoletto, Die Zauberflöte, and Les Contes d'Hoffmann.  Other roles include Tessa in The 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.  She performed the role of Sally in Die Fledermaus with the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera. 

Ms. Vikse is an alumna of the Eastman School of Music and Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts.