Mezzo-soprano Olivia Ottinger hails from the Hudson Valley. In the 2023 season she was most recently seen in Teatro Grattacielo’s La Vestale, Maria Callas: The 100th Birth Anniversary, TUNDI Production’s Die Walkure and Wagner in Vermont Festival covering Waltraute, New Amsterdam Opera’s Lucrezia Borgia, City Lyric Opera’s La Traviata covering Flora and with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall’s education programming. 2024 projects include a return to New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, a debut with Opera Magnifico covering La Zia Principessa and singing The Monitor in Suor Angelica, a return to TUNDI Production’s Wagner in Vermont Festival covering Flosshilde and Zweite Norn in Götterdämmerung and Das Rheingold, and more.

Additional recent credits include Dell’Arte Opera as Geneviève in their Pelléas et Mélisande, as well as Giunone in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, the world premiere of The Silk City with Garden State Opera as Giovanna Ambrogio, covering 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 , Mother Marie from Dialogues of the Carmelites, Olga and Filippyevna from Eugene Onegin, Purcell’s Dido, Bizet’s Carmen, and many more.
Last November she travelled to Hartford, Connecticut to participate in the district rounds of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition after being named a qualifying winner for the second year in a row. She was also named a semi-finalist in the 2021 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 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.
Offstage she is an active member of the staff for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and has a strong passion for diverse concert programming as well as contemporary music. 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.

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