Ciara Newman

• First Place in the Penn State School of Music Concerto Competition.
• Multiple Convocation performances while at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.
• Graduate Jury Honors during the fall of 2019, spring of 2020, and fall of 2020.

Ciara Emily Newman is a soprano and an Alaska native. Currently living in Cleveland, Ohio Ciara is kept busy teaching a private studio while cultivating a career as a professional performer. During the spring of 2021 Ciara earned her Master’s degree in vocal performance and pedagogy at The Pennsylvania State University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ciara has continued to perform, exploring the many ways opera can live outside of the theater. Recently, she performed a live radio broadcast of Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief with Penn State Opera Theater. Ciara was seen in the concert premier of Griffin Candey’s The House of Bernarda Alba as Magdalena in January of 2020. She has also performed in the Midwest premier of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied as Older Alyce Thompson. Previous roles include Papagena in Opera Fairbanks’ production of The Magic Flute, Madame Lidoine in Baldwin Wallace University's production of Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Elizetta in Cimerosa’s Il Matrimonio Segretto. While dedicating her life to a career on the operatic stage Ciara also has a passion for musical theater she has performed in regional productions of RENT, The Wizard of Oz, and Les Misérables.