Marianne Labriola received her degrees at the Boston Conservatory and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She participated in apprenticeships with Sarasota Opera and San Francisco Opera and toured with San Francisco Opera’s Western Opera Theater, performing throughout the United States and in Beijing and Shanghai, China. She is a 2006, 2007, and 2008 recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant and serves as artistic director of the Church of the Good Shepherd Sunday Concert Series in New York City.