Marisa Lenhardt

Diva Marisa is a maverick singer and performer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A conservatory-trained opera singer, Marisa has sung with the San Francisco Opera, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, Chris Brubeck, and multiple times in recital with Frederica von Stade. She has sung for Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and performed as herself in Francis Ford Coppola's most recent film project, "Twixt". Marisa has performed for 60,000 Raiders fans at the Oakland Coliseum. At San Jose City Hall, she rode her motorcycle down the steps before singing. At the Burning Man festival in Nevada, she sang before David Best's temple burns from 2002 to 2007, and rides a zipline into the Thunderdome before performing her composition of operatic vocal pyrotechnics. In 2011, she debuted her "opera and trapeze" act at The Crucible in Oakland.