Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives

Francesca Herrera is a soprano hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. Most recently, she was a studio artist with Wolf Trap Opera where she covered the roles of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Frasquita in Carmen. She was the recipient of an Encouragement Award in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition North Carolina District. The Opera Guild for Atlanta awarded her the Tommy Trotter Memorial Scholarship in their 2025 scholarship competition. During the 2024/25 Season, Herrera performed the role of Flora in Britten’s Turn of the Screw under the direction of Chía Patiño with the University of Michigan Department of Voice & Opera. She sang the roles of Cathy/Shamana 1 and covered the role of Lucy in the first orchestral workshop of Derek Bermel’s The House on Mango Street, a collaboration between the SMTD OperaLab and the Glimmerglass Festival. She had her role debuts as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Johanna in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd with Seagle Festival in 2024. As an accomplished dancer, Herrera also choreographed Seagle Festival’s 2024 Season opening production of Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon. She graduated cum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in music as well as minors in computer Science and psychology. There she was also awarded the Duke Music Department’s Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music. She began pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance under the tutelage of Amanda Majeski before joining the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio.