American Mezzo-Soprano, Kristina Riegle was most recently heard as die Dritte Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Flagstaff in Fidenza in Italy. In April she was Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte with The Boston Conservatory Opera, and was Giannetta their 2007 production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In June 2007 Ms. Riegle performed La Messaggiera and Proserpina in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo with the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari Italy. She has also performed the roles of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Angelina in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!, Consuela in West Side Story, the Royal Mathematician in Celius Dougherty’s children’s opera Many Moons, and as one of the six deranged women in Mark Houston’s musical Six Women with Brain Death, or Expiring Minds Want to Know.

Ms. Riegle has participated in the Master Classes of Inci Bashar, Elizabeth Blades-Zeller, Benno Schollum, Robert McLoud, Ellen Rievman, Ilona Kombrink, Gigi Mitchell Velasco, and Katherine Ciesinski. She has performed as a chorister with the Spoleto Festival USA, and as both a soloist and chorister in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston SC. Ms. Riegle placed Third in the Boston National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Auditions in February 2007. She was the winner of the South Carolina Music Teachers National Association (SCMTNA) Young Artist Voice Competition in 2003, and received Second Prize at the SCMTNA 2004 Competition. She won Second prize in both the Senior and Junior Women categories at the Mid-Atlantic Regional NATS Student Audition Competition, and received the Marguerite Elfe Erckman Outstanding Voice Student Award for 2003 and 2004 from the College of Charleston. Ms. Riegle holds a M.M. in Vocal Performance from The Boston Conservatory, as well as a B.A. in Music and an Artist Certificate from the College of Charleston.

Ms. Riegle has been a featured soloist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Chorus, College of Charleston Concert Choir, College of Charleston Madrigal Singers, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (SC), Grace Episcopal Church (SC), and Christ Episcopal Church, Greenwich CT. She is also a member of the Bob Taylor Festival Choir, and is a soloist on their CD "This is Thy Hour O Soul" on Centaur Records. With these choirs she has performed such works as Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Bach’s Cantata No. 4 (soloist), Vivaldi’s Gloria (soloist), Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Brahms’ Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Debussy’s Trois Chansons (soloist), Vaughan Williams’ Flos Campi, Corgliano’s Fern Hill, Vaughan Williams’ Lord, Thou hast been our refuge (soloist), and Stephen Paulus’ Mass.

Kristina Riegle, Mezzo-Soprano