Emerging dramatic Mezzo-soprano Olivia Ottinger hails from the Hudson Valley. She was most recently seen in Boston, Massachusetts participating in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition as a Qualifying Winner. Over the summer, she was seen at TUNDI Production’s Wagner in Vermont Festival singing Zweite Norn in Götterdämmerung, covering Flosshilde in Das Rheingold, and singing Ortrud in concert. In New York she was seen as part of a PASS Artists Grant, singing the role of Giorgio Germont in an innovative production of La Traviata at Snug Harbor. She sang with Opera Magnifico in their production of Suor Angelica as La Suor Zelatrice and covered La Zia Principessa. In 2023 she was featured in Carnegie Hall’s education programming with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, City Lyric Opera’s La Traviata covering Flora, Teatro Grattacielo’s La Vestale, New Amsterdam Opera’s Lucrezia Borgia, and Wagner in Vermont’s Die Walküre covering Waltraute.

Other recent credits include a young artist position with Dell’Arte Opera; Geneviève in their Pelléas et Mélisande, Giunone (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria), and The Composer in their concert version of Ariadne auf Naxos. New York role debuts have included Giovanna Ambrogio (The silk City World Premiere), Schwertleite (Die Walküre), Olga and Filippyevna (Eugene Onegin) and many more.

Equally at home on the competition stage as in full productions, Olivia participated in the district rounds of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in Connecticut after being named a qualifying winner for the second year in a row. She was also named a semi-finalist in the Camerata Bardi Vocal Competition, as well as the SAS Performing Arts Competition. She won an honorable mention in the professional division of Progressive Musicians Online Classics’ Competition, and was a finalist for Opera Idol in Chicago, Illinois.

Holding a Bachelor’s of Voice from Mannes School of Music, she studies voice with Beth Roberts. Offstage Olivia is an active member of the staff for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and as a cellist she has performed at Avery Fischer Hall, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and with many orchestras throughout New York City and the surrounding area.

How has TUNDI’s Mission impacted you as an artist and/or human?

Being a part of TUNDI Productions has allowed me space to truly own my craft. As a young, emerging artist, I’ve been given the freedom to develop my own character and musical ideas which is an extremely rare opportunity. TUNDI provides a unique space where both seasoned Wagnerian singers and newcomers can explore in tandem, and I’m grateful to be part of such a collaborative and creatively charged environment. As a classical artist, I’m accustomed to being confined by tradition and rules, so it’s incredibly refreshing to be in a place where we can discover something new and original. Now, entering my third year as a TUNDI artist I am extremely excited to be contributing to their first full ring cycle. It’s powerful to witness how our art remains fresh, current, and authentic when artists are uniquely encouraged to share our ideas and take our characters on the journey we feel they need to take. - Olivia, Feb 2025