Kimberly Milburn is an American mezzo-soprano and actress who is beginning to make her mark on the New York opera scene. This fall, she returns to the Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co. as Leila in Iolanthe and covers the title role for a preview concert. This past spring and summer, she portrayed Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas with the Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co., and she sang Adalgisa in a scene from Norma with the Asian American Music Society for their Kennedy Center social impact emerging artist intensive. She also performed for masterclasses with Kathleen McKellar Ferguson, Joanie Brittingham, Rick Davis, and Kyle Pfortmiller at the REACH and the Classical Singer convention.  
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In 2022-23 she appeared as Ericlea in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Rafaela (cover) in the East Coast premiere of Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Juana, and Carmen excerpted in concert, all with the dell'Arte Opera Ensemble; as Leila in lolanthe at Symphony Space; as Zita in Gianni Schicchi (scene); and as Mère Marie in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Bronx Opera Outreach. She was in several concerts in New York and Washington, D.C., singing Dorabella, Nicklausse, Carmen, Lyubasha, Augusta Tabor, and Lilli Vanessi and was a featured soloist at a fully-funded intensive and concert at the REACH at Kennedy Center with the Asian American Music Society.