Mezzo-soprano Olivia Ottinger hails from the Hudson Valley. This summer she will be covering the role of Waltraute in TUNDI Production’s Die Walküre, and singing Ortrud, Venus, and a Flowermaiden in concert as part of their Wagner in Vermont festival. Most recently she was seen in City Lyric Opera’s La Traviata covering Flora, in New Amsterdam Opera’s Lucrezia Borgia, and with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall’s education programming. Upcoming projects include Teatro Grattacielo’s La Vestale, and Opera Magnifico’s Suor Angelica where she will be singing The Monitor
and covering La Zia Principessa. Last summer she was seen with Dell’Arte Opera as Geneviève in their Pelléas et Mélisande, as well as Giunone in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria. Other recent credits include the world premiere of The Silk City with Garden State Opera as Giovanna Ambrogio, the Un’Altra Fante understudy in Teatro Grattacielo’s site-specific Giulietta e Romeo, The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos with
Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble as part of their Garden Concert Series, Schwertleite in Die Walküre, and scenes from Falstaff as Meg Page. Other past roles include Mother Marie from Dialogues of the Carmelites, Olga and Filippyevna from Eugene Onegin, Purcell’s Dido, Bizet’s Carmen, and many more.