Guatemalan-Colombian soprano Mariana Iguavita is a second-year graduate voice student in the MM Performance and Literature program and the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate of Achievement at the Eastman School of Music. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.M in Voice and Opera
Performance, where she participated in leading and supporting roles like Barbarina W.A Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Elena in Nino Rota’s The Florentine Straw Hat, Vixen in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, the title role in Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Mariana has also been a guest soloist with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, performing the role of Barbarina at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Night’s Concert, and a solo recital for the Vancouver based-company Nebula Performances. She became the Buffalo-Toronto District Winner at the Laffont Competition of the Metropolitan Opera House in the 2024-2025 season. She covered the role of Margarita Xirgu in the Eastman Opera Theatre production of Ainadamar. She also participated as a soloist in the Bach Cantata series at the Eastman School of Music, as well as collaborating with new music ensembles.