Marnie Breckenridge is an American singer based out of New York City. She is a soprano performing opera, classical music, operetta and classical sacred music. She graduated from

Pacific Union College Pacific Union College (PUC) is a private liberal arts college in Angwin, California. It is the only four-year college in Napa County. It is a coeducational residential college with an almost exclusively undergraduate student body. PUC is accre ...

in Angwin, overlooking the Napa Valley, with a bachelor's degree in music in 1993. She went on to get a Master of Music degree from the

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. Celebrated for her roles in contemporary opera, she originated the role of Mother in David T. Little and

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's ''

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'' in 2012. In 2020 she was awarded the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by an Individual in the operatic field for her performance as

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in Luna Pearl Woolf and

's world premiere presentation of ''Jacqueline'' presented by Tapestry Opera.

Notable World Premieres

* ''

'' (2012, David T. Little, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist) * ''Today it Rains'' (2019, Laura Kaminsky, composer; Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reid, librettists) * ''Jacqueline'' (2020, Luna Pearl Woolf, composer; Royce Vavrek, librettist)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Breckenridge, Marnie Living people American operatic sopranos Pacific Union College alumni San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumni Singers from California Classical musicians from California Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women