About Marcella

Marcella Astore is a mezzo-soprano based in New York City. She recently completed a Professional Studies Diploma in Voice at Mannes School of Music, where she studied with Amy Burton and Joshua Greene. Performance highlights with Mannes Opera include Bradamante in Handel’s Alcina, Ruth in Muhly’s Dark Sisters, Kleonike in Adamo’s Lysistrata, and Maman/La Chatte in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges, as well as Mannes’s workshop of David T. Little's Agamemnon in partnership with Theatre for a New Audience. 

She will be a VOCES8 US Scholar for the 2025-26 season. Past engagements include Teatro Nuovo as a Studio Artist in summer 2024 and Spoleto Festival USA as a Vocal Fellow in summer 2025, along with collaborations with Juilliard415 and TENET Vocal Artists through Talks with TENET.

Marcella also holds a Master of Music in Voice from Mannes and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance with a Minor in Business of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where she was awarded the George R. Woodhead Endowed Prize in Voice.