Korliss Uecker (born April 28, [1] is an American operatic soprano from Hettinger, North Dakota.
With a Masters of Music from the Juilliard School, she performed over 100 times at the Metropolitan Opera singing roles such as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Papagena in The Magic Flute.
During college at UND she also sang professionally in a jazz band named Blue Skies, which helped finance her undergraduate studies.
[7] She was a member of the Juilliard Opera Center and earned her Master of Music degree in 1990.
She worked as a registered nurse while she attended Juilliard, chiefly in the medical surgical unit and in orthopedics at New York Presbyterian Hospital.