About
Soprano Teresa Perrotta is a 2023 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition and Winner of the 2023 Sullivan Foundation Award. In the 24/25 season she debuts at The Metropolitan Opera as First Lady in The Magic Flute, Opera Omaha as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni , and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and returns to Washington National Opera as a guest soloist in their concert, Gods and Mortals: A Celebration of Wagner. On the concert stage, Teresa returns to the Pacific Symphony as Freia in Das Rheingold.
Last season, Teresa returned to Washington National Opera for her final season as a Cafritz Young Artist. Her mainstage roles at WNO included the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded as Also Jess and Guadalena in Songbird. On the concert stage, Teresa made debuts with the Erie Philharmonic in Carmina Burana, The Santa Fe Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the Pacific Symphony for staged performances as Mimì in La bohème.
Marie Antoinette in Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles
at the Chateau de Versailles 2019
“...showed total command musically and dramatically and a lovely, pliant voice one would seek out again.”
(Opera Magazine - UK)
Teresa Perrotta anchored the show vocally and emotionally with her affecting,
impressively detailed Mimì."
(Opera News)
"Teresa Perrotta, whose big, sunny soprano [performed]
with secure, arching lines and
melodiously amorous pleading."
(Opera Today)
"Of the solid quartet of Athenian
lovers, the mellow soprano of
Teresa Perrotta (Helena) stood out."
(Wall Street Journal)
"[Teresa Perrotta] seized with a stunning role interpretation and consummate vocalism
that garnered deafening applause."
(Voche di Meche)
Elle in Poulenc's La voix humaine
2021 (Emilia Perrotta)
