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. 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 25/26 season, Teresa will make debuts with The Dallas Opera and Cincinnati Opera for Carmen (Micaëla), as well as her role debut as Madame Butterfly with Opera Louisiane. On the concert stage, she will debut with the St. Louis Symphony in Die Zauberflöte (First Lady) conducted by Stéphane Denève.
In the 24/25 season, she debuted 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 returned to Washington National Opera as a guest soloist in their concert, Gods and Mortals: A Celebration of Wagner. On the concert stage, Teresa returned to the Pacific Symphony as Freia in Das Rheingold.
In the 23/24 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.
In the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Perrotta returned to the Santa Fe Opera as Alice Ford in Falstaff. She covered Renée Fleming as Clarissa Vaughan in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ new opera The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Perrotta was scheduled to do the same role in the workshop of The Hours at The Metropolitan Opera but was canceled due to COVID.
Second place winner of the prestigious Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall in the winner’s concert in May 2022. Ms. Perrotta rang in the New Year as the soprano soloist with the Dayton Philharmonic in their New Year’s Eve: Return to Vienna concert. As an independent and self-funded project, she performed as Elle in La voix humaine.
Ms. Perrotta frequently collaborates with living opera composers. Through Cincinnati Opera's Opera Fusion: New Works, she has created leading roles in the workshops of Kevin Puts' The Hours and Tobias Picker's Awakenings.In summer 2021, she was a Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist, where she performed as Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the baton of Harry Bicket. While at Santa Fe, she also performed scenes in concert as Nedda in Pagliacci, Marguerite in Faust, and Susannah in Susannah as well as winning the Katharine Mayer Award.
In the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Perrotta made her international debut as Marie Antoinette in The Ghosts of Versailles at L’Opéra Royal de Versailles. She was a young artist at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2019, where she covered Marie Antoinette in The Ghosts of Versailles. Ms. Perrotta was the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Cincinnati Choral Society. An advocate for community engagement, she was the soprano soloist in the Lynx Project Autism Advocacy Series in Cincinnati; a collaboration with children with autism and artists to compose and create art songs.
Micaëla in Carmen
2025 Dallas Opera (Kyle Flubacker)
Mimì in La bohème
2023 Glimmerglass Festival
Marguerite in Faust
2021 Santa Fe Opera Scenes (Tira Howardr)
In the 2022-2023 season, she made her Kennedy Center debut as the Fünfte Magd in Elektra followed by Musetta in La bohème. Additional debuts included Alice Ford in Falstaff with Maryland Lyric Opera, Anna in Nabucco with Washington Concert Opera, and in the summer of 2023, she returned to The Glimmerglass Festival to make her mainstage debut as Mimì in La bohème.
Nedda in I Pagliacci
2021 Santa Fe Opera Scenes (Tira Howardr)
She covered the role of Donna Anna Don Giovanni with Chautauqua Opera in 2018. In 2017, Ms. Perrotta performed as Manja in Countess Maritza, in addition to being a principal ensemble/dancer in productions of Anything Goes, Music Man, The Student Prince, and the North American Première of Gershwin’s Primrose with the Ohio Light Opera.
Ms. Perrotta received her Artist Diploma in operatic performance at The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she also received her master's degree. She received her undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music. During her studies, she performed the roles of Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Krystyna Zywulska in Jake Heggie’s Out of Darkness, and the Soprano 1 in Philip Glass’ Hydrogen Jukebox.