Elizabeth Baldwin, Soprano

Biography

Soprano Elizabeth Baldwin is a promising young full lyric soprano on both the operatic and concert stages. She was hailed by The San Francisco Chronicle for the Merola Schwabacher Concert singing the role of Margherita in Boito's Mefistofele where she "unleashed a combination of vocal force and limpid clarity" and singled out by The San Francisco Examiner from the same performance for "delivering a mad scene of such intensity as to put the whole canon of preceding bel canto mad scenes to shame."

In the coming season, Ms. Baldwin will be making her professional debut with the Kentucky Opera (in collaboration with the Owensboro Symphony) singing the title role in Puccini's Tosca. In the 2011-12 season Ms. Baldwin debuted with the Virginia Opera singing the Dew Fairy in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel while covering the role of Gretel, as well as the role of La Princesse in Philip Glass' Orphée. In the 2010-11 season, Ms. Baldwin was an artist at the Boston Opera Institute where she performed the role of Cora in Stephen Paulus' The Postman Always Rings Twice, as well as other engagements. In the summer of 2011, she sang the role of Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen at Arbor Opera and covered the role of Arminda in Mozart's La finta giardiniera at the San Francisco Merola Opera Program in the summer of 2012.

On the concert stage, Ms. Baldwin performed the soprano solos in Mendelssohn's Elijah at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston University Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Dr. Ann Howard Jones in 2011. Additional credits include Vivaldi's Gloria, Fauré's Requiem, Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, Aaron Copland's As It Fell Upon A Day, John William's Seven For Luck, William Schuman's In Sweet Music, Ivan Fedele's Maja, as well as many others. Other performances include Fata Morgana in Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, the title role in Strauss' Arabella, and Mrs. Webb in the World Premiere of Ned Rorem's Our Town at Indiana University.

In competitions, Ms. Baldwin was a 2012 Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions competition, wining through the Central Region and Illinois District. Ms. Baldwin was a 2011 Grand Prize winner in The William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation competition. She continued on to also win First Place in both the National Orpheus Vocal Competition (2011) and The Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition (2010). The Tanglewood Music Center Festival awarded her with the Grace B. Jackson Prize for Singers after her summer apprenticeships.

Ms. Baldwin has participated in several young artists programs including the San Francisco Merola Opera Program (2012), Ravinia Steans Music Institute (2011), Tanglewood Music Center Festival (2009 & 2010), Pine Mountain Music Festival (2008), Charley Creek Vocal Workshop for Canadian and American Singers (2006 & 2007), Chautauqua Opera (2006), and Virginia Opera Emerging Resident Artist Program (2009-2010 & 2011-2012).

She is a student of Carol Vaness with a Master of Music degree in Vocal/Opera Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Bowling Green State University. Ms. Baldwin has also studied with Penelope Bitzas, Timothy Noble, Roy Samuelsen, Warren Jones, Martin Katz, Dawn Upshaw, Phyllis Curtin, Marilyn Horne, James Levine, Tony Bennett, Virginia Zeani, Sheri Greenawald, among others.