Vivien Vigliante

• CS Music Spring 2022 Interview: https://www.csmusic.net/content/articles/cs-vocal-competition-winners-3/
• From the Top's "Daily Joy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbGO1BRl-U

Vivien Vigliante, 19, is a soprano from Northern Virginia. She began singing when she was ten and has been taught by Lorraine Nubar, Cynthia Sanner, Jorge Parodi, Sooyeon Kim, and Claire Galloway Weber. She is currently an undergraduate student at Northwestern University where she is double majoring in voice/opera and arts administration. She is in the studio of Theresa Brancaccio.

In 2019, she played “Prince Orlofsky” in Die Fledermaus as part of Harmonia’s Youth Opera Program. In 2020, she participated in the Peabody Classical Singers Workshop Summer Intensive. Also in 2020, she played “Mrs. Wormwood,” in her high school’s fall musical, Matilda. In 2021, she participated in The Juilliard Winter Festival Classical Voice Workshop. She also played the role of “Mama Euralie” in her high school’s spring musical, Once on this Island. In the summer of 2021, Vivien participated in the Washington National Opera’s prestigious Summer Institute Program and also attended Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Music Pre-college for classical voice. She attended the the Juilliard Pre-College Classical Voice program in high school and graduated in May 2023. In 2024, she was cast in Northwestern's opera productions of Hansel and Gretel and Così fan tutte.

Vivien has had the honor of singing in masterclasses with Brian Zeger, Madeline Miskie, Elizabeth Futral, Rachel Calloway, Dr. Michelle DeBruyn, Stanford Olsen, Katherine Jolly, Karen Lykes, Daniel Weeks, Amy Johnson, François Germain, and Dina Kuznetsova.

She has been recognized by numerous local and national competitions including Music International Grand Prix, NATS, Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association (NVMTA), Hal Leonard, CS Music 2021 and 2022 Spring Competition finalist, Schmidt, "From the Top" (Fellowship recipient), YoungArts, and the George and Nora London Foundation (Juilliard scholarship recipient).