Michelle Rofrano
Conductor
Michelle Rofrano is a Sicilian-American conductor with a keen interest in the intersection of art and social activism. An avid opera conductor, she has recently led productions of Viardot’s Cendrillon with City Lyric Opera; The Queen of Spades and Trouble in Tahiti with The Glimmerglass Festival; Telemann’s comic opera Don Quichotte at Camacho’s Wedding with Opera Saratoga; Le nozze di Figaro with the Crane School of Music; Trouble in Tahiti, Service Provider, Avow, and A Flourish of Green with Westminster Choir College; Così fan tutte and The Turn of the Screw with DC Public Opera; Così fan tutte with the Oberlin in Italy opera festival; and Suor Angelica with the New Jersey Opera Project. She has served as assistant conductor for productions of La Bohéme and Le Nozze di Figaro with Florida Grand Opera; The Cunning Little Vixen, La Traviata, Blue, and Silent Night with The Glimmerglass Festival; Eugene Onegin and Salome with Spoleto Festival USA; L’elisir d’amore and The Merry Wives of Windsor with Juilliard Opera; Man of La Mancha with Opera Saratoga; and La Bohéme with Opera Birmingham.
A Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Mentee, Rofrano enjoys performing orchestral repertoire in addition to opera and has led concerts with the Spoleto Festival USA orchestra, CJMEA youth orchestra, and The Little Orchestra Society. Her recording of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Overture in C from the Spoleto Festival’s Classical Showcase in 2019 has been featured multiple times on classical music radio program Performance Today, reaching a national audience.