Jennifer Rivera, Michael Rice
Jennifer Michelle Rivera was married Saturday in New York to Michael
Jason Rice. Herschel D. Garfein, a librettist and composer who is a
friend of the couple and who became a Universal Life minister for the
occasion, officiated at the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park.
The bride, 37, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a
mezzo-soprano who performed the title role in “La Stellidaura
Vendicante” last month at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival in
Austria,; in March she sang the role of Stephano in “Romeo et Juliette”
with the Palm Beach Opera. Her discography includes “Agrippina” with
Rene Jacobs for the Harmonia Mundi label and “L’Olimpiade” with
Alessandro de Marchi for the Sony Music label. She also writes a blog
about her life and travels, “Trying to Remain Opera-tional,” and is a
contributor to the culture section of the Huffington Post.
She graduated summa cum laude from Boston University and received a Master of Music in vocal performance from Juilliard.
She is the daughter of S. Patricia Rivera and Rafael Rivera of Hyde
Park, N.Y. The bride’s father retired as a sixth-grade teacher from
Strawberry School in Santa Rosa, Calif., and is an adjunct professor of
speech and theater arts at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. Her mother retired as a loan officer at Washington Mutual Bank in
Santa Rosa.
The groom, 37, recruits for media companies at Howard-Sloan-Koller
Group, an executive search firm New York, and is the producer and a host
of OperaNow, a podcast. Until last year, he was a bass-baritone opera
singer. He graduated from Northwestern.
He is a son of June A. Rice and Thomas F. Rice of Stamford, Conn. Until
March, the groom’s father was the chief executive of ScanOptics, an
archiving service in Hartford.
The groom’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
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