Peruvian-American mezzo-soprano Kelly Guerra starred as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang with the Chautauqua Opera Company in 2021. She was lauded as “brilliant” by the Santa Barbara Independent for her performance of Lupita in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna with Opera Santa Barbara. In Spring 2022 she will make her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut under the baton of John Adams in the Noon to Midnight contemporary festival, and she will premiere Katherine Balch’s cantata Illuminate with the California Symphony. Her recent performance of Iphigenia Unbound in Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s …(Iphigenia) was noted as “beautifully sung” by the Washington Post. As a recitalist, she has performed at the Lucerne Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Bard Music Festival.