Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Soprano Francesca Herrera is a Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio Artist with Arizona Opera. At the start of the 2025/26 Season, she made her house debut as Luisa in Héctor Armienta’s Zorro. In spring 2026, she returned as Clorinda in La Cenerentola. This summer Herrera joins Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist covering with a performance of Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro.

Herrera was a 2025 Studio Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, where she covered the roles of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Frasquita in Carmen. She won the 2025 Tommy Trotter Memorial Scholarship in the Opera Guild for Atlanta Scholarship Competition and placed first in the Great Lakes Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Student Auditions.

During the 2024/25 Season, Herrera received an Encouragement Award in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (North Carolina District) and performed Flora in The Turn of the Screw with University of Michigan’s Department of Voice & Opera. She also performed Cathy/Shamana 1 and covered Lucy in the first orchestral workshop of The House on Mango Street, a new opera by Derek Bermel and Sandra Cisneros.

As an Emerging Artist with Seagle Festival for two summers, Herrera performed roles including Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Johanna in Sweeney Todd. An accomplished dancer, she choreographed Seagle’s productions of Brigadoon and With Blood, with Ink by Peter M. Krask. Herrera graduated cum laude from Duke University and pursued graduate studies at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Amanda Majeski.