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The Swedish-American mezzo-soprano, Olivia Ericsson, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance. She was named a finalist in the 2023 Kentucky Bach Choir Audrey Rooney Vocal Competition and won 1st Prize in the Great Composers Competition Series. She was the 2019 recipient of the Boston University Opera Departmental Award for outstanding musical achievement and was awarded the University of Michigan Merit Scholarship for musical talent and potential.
Olivia Ericsson 2022-2023 season included her Swedish debut at Drottningholm Slottsteater (Stockholm Palace Theater) with the Stockholm konstnärliga högskola as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She also joined the Wintergreen Chamber Music Festival in Wintergreen, Virginia and the Baroque Opera Workshop in Flushing, New York. This spring (2023), she gave an Early Music recital accompanied by organ at the Juilliard School in New York City. She looks forward to giving an additional recital at Juilliard in December 2023.
Notable opera roles include Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Stockholm konstnärliga högskola), Ruggiero in George Frideric Handel's Alcina (Chicago Summer Opera), Dorabella in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Hansel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel (Comic Opera Guild & New York Lyric Opera), Dritte Dame in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Berlin Opera Academy), Cherubino in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (Berlin Opera Academy), and the title role of the University of Michigan’s production of G.F. Handel's La Susanna. |
