American soprano Elizabeth Baldwin has been praised as being “ferociously talented” by the
San Francisco Examiner and “mesmerizingly vulnerable” by the New York Times.
Ms. Baldwin’s current 2023-24 season engagements include a debut with Vista Philharmonic
Orchestra at the Groton Hill Music Center performing Dvorak’s Te Deum and Boyer’s On
Music’s Wings, debuting the role of Magda in The Consul with Angels Vocal Art Summer Opera
Festival in L.A., a debut with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra singing Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 9, a debut with the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra singing Verdi’s Requiem,
covering Latonia Moore as the title role of Tosca with Oklahoma City Philharmonic, a debut
with the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre performing Nella in a double bill of Gianni
Schicchi and Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost as well as soprano soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, among
others.
Recent operatic engagements include: title role of Tosca with Anchorage Opera; Marguerite in
Faust with Savannah VOICE Festival; Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer with Miami Music
Festival’s Wagner Institute; title role of Norma with Municipal de Santiago Opera Nacional de
Chile; Eva Crowley in Perla’s An American Dream with Anchorage Opera; Sieglinde in Die
Walküre with Miami Music Festival’s Wagner Institute; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with both
Opera Company of Middlebury and NYC’s Loft Opera. Other highlights include: Tatiana
in Eugene Onegin with Chautauqua Opera; title role of Tosca with Opera San Jose, Kentucky
Opera, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, Houston’s Opera in the Heights and Boston Youth
Symphony; title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh; title role of Suor
Angelica with Opera Project Columbus; Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera with Boston Youth
Symphony; and Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes with Chautauqua Opera, a role she later covered
with the San Francisco Symphony.
On the concert stage, Ms. Baldwin was heard recently in a recital performing with Howard
Watkins at the Savannah VOICE Festival; Verdi’s Requiem with Alabama Symphony Orchestra
(a work later covered with the San Diego Symphony); Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Akron
Symphony, Sarasota Symphony Orchestra, and Gulf Coast Symphony; Handel’s Messiah with
Erie Philharmonic Orchestra; and Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder with Denver Philharmonic
Orchestra. She made her debut with Dallas Opera in their concert series entitled Verdi & Co.,
gave a NATS Texoma Conference Recital at Texas A&M University, and performed an all
Wagner concert with Wagner Society of Washington D. C. She was also honored to return to
her hometown as a special guest artist with the Toledo Opera on their annual opera gala
concert. An active recitalist with a deep passion for lieder, Ms. Baldwin’s most recent
collaborations include recitals with Ravinia Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival.
Ms. Baldwin is a 2024 First Place Gold Medalist with the American Traditions Vocal Collection
Competition and two-time Sherrill Milnes Opera Award winner. She was also a National SemiFinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions; Grand Prize winner in The Sullivan Foundation Competition and Nicholas Loren Vocal Competition; First Prize winner in the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, The National Opera Association Competition, The Heida Hermanns International Voice Competition and the Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition. She has also been awarded grants from operatic organizations including Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation, Giulio Gari Foundation, Stella Maris International Competition (on board the MS Europa), Tanglewood Music Center, and Schulyer Foundation for Career
Bridges, among others.
More information about Ms. Baldwin may be found on her website at
www.elizabethbaldwinsoprano.com.