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                                Kaileigh Riess                            
                                                        2021 Vocal Institute Fellow
                                                                                    
                            
                                                        “appealing and fresh-voiced” (The Chicago Tribune)
KAILEIGH RIESS ('20) 26, born in Boston, Massachusetts, earned her Performance Certificate at the Boston University Opera Institute, where she performed the roles of Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress and Maria Bertram in Mansfield Park. Kaileigh was a Boston District Winner at Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
- 2019 Emerging Artist: Boston Court Theatre, Pasadena
- 2016, 2017 Studio Artist: Central City Opera
 
								