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Dr. Diana Livingston Friedley has appeared as a guest soloist with numerous organizations throughout the United States, Germany, Italy and Taiwan. More recently she has appeared with the Idaho State Civic Symphony, Idaho Falls Symphony, Boise Baroque Orchestra and Opera Idaho. Diana has also recently appeared in regional recitals singing Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch, Spanisches Liederbuch, and Brahms’ Liebeslieder. Her many operatic roles include: Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone, at The Old Town Actors Studio (OTAS), Pocatello; Woman in Poulenc's La voix humane also at OTAS, ISU and The College of Southern Idaho; Mrs. Webb in Ned Rorem’s Our Town, with Opera Idaho, Boise; Ichi Ban, in Napa De Monk, Queen of the Lost Waters of Mars, Bloomington Playwright’s Project, Bloomington, Indiana; Peggy Shippen in A Twist of Treason at the John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, Indiana; and Mimi Manini with the Zwei-Groschen-Oper's production of 1001 Nights in Venice at the Theaterhof in Humbach, Germany. Diana has also performed with ISU's Theatre/Dance department as Fraülein Kost in the musical Cabaret. Other operatic roles include: Fiorilla in Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Musetta in a critically acclaimed production of La Bohéme, which received the 1995 National Opera Association's "Best Production" Award. Diana has also worked with numerous opera companies in New York including: Opera Orchestra of New York, The Bronx Opera Company, The American Chamber Opera Company, and The Liederkranz Foundation.

Recent projects include: in-progress recording of “The Vocal-Instrumental Music of Howard Boatwright,” and releasing "The Songs of Howard Boatwright" with ISU piano faculty, Professor Kori Bond, on Centaur Record label. ISU’s Joy to the World concert in December 2018 heard Livingston Friedley sing the soprano solo in Poulenc's Gloria; September 2019 she will embark on her first stage play performing the role of Raquel de Angelis, in Living on Love by Joe DiPietro at OTAS; October 2019 she will be heard with the men of ISU choirs as the soprano solo in Monteverdi's Lamento della Ninfa; she is trilled to the chamber version of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Idaho Falls Symphony under the baton of Dr. Thomas Heuser in Spring 2021.

Diana completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts under Judith Nicosia, a Master of Music at Indiana University with Lynn Luciano, and Bachelor of Music at Westminster Choir College with Suzanne Pratt. Dr. Livingston Friedley is currently Professor of Music in The School of Performing Arts at Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho.