Zineb Fikri is a rising Puerto Rican-Moroccan contralto from Los Angeles. She studied at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, CA, where she graduated May 2021 with her Masters of Music degree in Vocal Arts and Opera, and earned her Graduate Certificate degree in December 2023. During the 22/23 season, Zineb performed a role debut as Older Woman in Flight by Jonathan Dove with USC Opera in Fall 2022, then in Spring 2023 as the role of Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia by Britten and as the Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in USC’s 2023 Opera Scenes. In the summer of 2023, Zineb revisited the role of Third Lady as well as Antonia's Mother from Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach at the Musiktheater Bavaria in Germany. In the 23/24 season, made her role debut as La Baronne in Massanet’s Chérubin with USC Opera and had her stage debut at LA Opera in their mainstage production of Highway 1, USA, by William Grant Still in February 2024. She will perform again with LA Opera in their 2025 production of Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov. Prior to earning her graduate degrees, she earned her B.A. in Vocal and Music Performance at Concordia University Irvine(CUI) in 2019, Zineb performed and toured with LA Opera Zarzuela Project under the direction of Melodee Fernandez as well as Songscapes on Tour under the direction of Ann Gresham throughout the greater Los Angeles area. During her time at CUI, she performed varying vocal styles including Jazz, Commercial Music, Sacred Music and Early Music throughout Europe and the United States in addition to earning a minor degree in Studio Art. Zineb is also an award winner of the Sigma Alpha Iota Music Scholarship competition, two time Opera Buffs grant recipient, and is also an accomplished Contra-Bass Clarinetist and is frequently invited to perform with wind orchestras throughout the Orange County and Los Angeles area. She is also a champion Junior Olympic Archer, who competed in the preliminaries for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.