Equally comfortable with classical and contemporary operatic repertoire, soprano Elizabeth Reiter’s “rich and silvery” voice (Boston Globe) and “impressive musical polish” (Opera News) have already prompted comparison to a “young Roberta Peters (who) is fully ready for any professional stage” (David Shengold, Philadelphia City Paper).

The young soprano’s 2011-12 season will see her join the Oper Frankfurt Opera Studio, an exclusive training program comprised of six young singers from around the world.  In addition, the artist will debut at Opera Memphis as Adele/Die Fledermaus and return to Opera Company of Philadelphia as Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail. 

Ms. Reiter’s 2010-11 engagements included her role debut as Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Teatri SPA di Treviso, the title role/The Cunning Little Vixen with Curtis Opera Theatre at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Aphrodite in Hans Werner Henze’s Phaedra with Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the role of Dragonfly in Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Castleton Festival, conducted by Lorin Maazel.  She also was a featured artist in the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute. 

Elizabeth Reiter recently performed the role of Zerlina/Don Giovanni with James Levine at the Tanglewood Music Center.  While at Tanglewood, she also worked with composer André Previn on his Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid, a piece she later performed in Tokyo with the composer at the piano in a performance broadcasted by the NHK TV.

Under the tutelage of Marlena Malas, Elizabeth Reiter pursued graduate studies in opera at The Curtis Institute of Music where her credits include the title role/La Sonnambula, Corinna/Il viaggio a Reims, and Zerlina.  Other recent opera performances include Amor/Orphée et Eurydice (Opera Company of Philadelphia), Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro and Despina/Così fan tutte (Chautauqua Institution), Adéle/Jane Eyre (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Sir Colin Graham directing), Flora/The Turn of the Screw (Chicago Opera Theater, Aspen Opera Theater Center), Belinda/Dido and Aeneas (Manhattan School of Music), and Young Maria Celeste in the World Premiere of Philip Glass and Mary Zimmerman’s Galileo Galilei (Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and London’s Barbican Centre).

On the concert stage, Ms. Reiter has been heard as soprano soloist in Weill’s Royal Palace at the Bard Music Festival with the American Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Curtis Sinfonietta, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra led by Timothy Muffitt, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia.  She also has sung the role of Cupid in Purcell’s King Arthur in concert performances with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque under the baton of Music Director Jane Glover.  As a recitalist, Ms. Reiter has collaborated with such artists as André Previn, Craig Rutenberg, Warren Jones, and Mikael Eliasen.

The 2011 First Prize Winner of the Liederkranz Competition Lieder/Art Song Division, Ms. Reiter has received awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Lotte Lenya Competition, and the Mario Lanza Competition.  She received her undergraduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music, with additional studies at the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, and as a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.  Originally from Chicago, Elizabeth Reiter got her earliest operatic training as a member of the children’s chorus with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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