Rocky Duval

Ms. Duval has performed with many companies, including The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Glimmerglass Festival, Festival Bach Montreal, Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, The Colorado Music Festival, The Seattle Symphony, Opera Steamboat, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute and Amherst Early Music.

Her debut album of baroque arias, Treacherous Fate, and the accompanying music video for Dido's Lament were described as "absolutely beautiful, vocally and visually" (Deviant Opera), and she won first prize in Japan's Ise-Shima singing competition (2022).

Her first play, Hildegard, Reborn, about St. Hildegard von Bingen, premiered to a sold out house at Lincoln Center and was sponsored by the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts in spring 2024. Rocky arranged Hildegard's music for the show and composed new pieces based on Hildegard's style and texts.

She has performed at venues including The Apollo Theatre, The High Line, CBGB, WQXR's The Green Space, Opera America, Monestir Pedralbes Barcelona, Schauspielhaus Bochum and The English Theatre Frankfurt, and on Spanish National Television (La1) and ARTE in Germany. Her voice has been featured in McDonald's commercials, Experiments in Opera's podcast Aqua Net & Funyuns, and the opera film Freydis & Gudrid. In 2026 she became the new host of Old School on WQXR.

Rocky is also a public speaking and presentation skills coach, a guest professor of communications at Cooper Union School of Engineering, and has been a guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, Juilliard, McNeese University and Riverdale Country School. Playground Opera, the children's opera series she produced from 2019 to 2023, was twice nominated for Opera America's Opera Innovation awards. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Washington and a diploma in coaching from NYU, and is working on a certificate in medieval music at the University of Lleida in Spain.