Full Biography
A graduate of the Yale School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Sylvia D’Eramo has already made mainstage debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, among others. Her voice is praised for its “purity of timbre, the brilliance of its highs and the powerful lyricism of its line…sonorous nuances that give way to sumptuously ethereal pianissimi” (Olyrix).
D’Eramo opens the 2025/26 season at Theater St. Gallen as Chrysothemis in a revival of Elektra and returns as Mimì in La bohème, one of her signature roles, both under the baton of Modestas Pitrenas. The season is marked by a series of significant role and house debuts: she takes on the role of Anna Sørensen in Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night with Houston Grand Opera, Marta in Tobias Kratzer’s staging of Die Passagierin with Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Atlanta Opera. She concludes the season at Santa Fe Opera, reprising the role of Gerda Wegener in Tobias Picker’s Lili Elbe.
Sylvia D’Eramo has established herself on the international stage with major role debuts in leading houses. She sang Mimì in La bohème at Dallas Opera under Emmanuel Villaume and at Santa Fe Opera in James Robinson’s production with Iván López-Reynoso, in addition to her early success in the role at the Verbier Festival under James Gaffigan. At Theater St. Gallen she created the role of Gerda Wegener in the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s Lili Elbe, and took on Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani under Modestas Pitrenas. Further highlights include Kitty/Vanessa in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, Musetta in La bohème under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Met, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at North Carolina Opera, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier in St. Gallen, and Micaëla in Carmen both at Santa Fe Opera and with Jacksonville Symphony. Earlier in her career she sang Musetta with Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia as a cover at Santa Fe.
On the concert stage, D’Eramo has performed Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder in St. Gallen under Modestas Pitrenas, presented a Puccini programme with Jonathan Tetelman at Rudolfinum Dvořák Hall in Prague, and appeared in concerts in Maribor and Ljubljana with Martin Sušnik. She has sung with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Kevin Puts’s The Hours under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, joined Jonathan Tetelman at the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, and performed with Evan LeRoy Johnson at Musikfest Bremen. Earlier engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Marin Alsop and the Yale Philharmonia, as well as with the Glens Falls Symphony.
Sylvia D’Eramo began her professional journey as a member of the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, later joining the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Program in 2020/21. In the same season she won the Thierry Mermod Prize for top singer at the Verbier Festival, where she sang her first performances of Mimì in La bohème. She previously gained formative experience as an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera, performing Barena in Jenůfa, Cugina in Madama Butterfly, and covering Mimì. A graduate of Yale University, she appeared there as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. D’Eramo can also be heard as Abigail Williams on Albany Records’ 2017 recording of Robert Ward’s The Crucible. She is a winner of the Dallas Opera’s Maria Callas Artist of the Year Award, the Lois Alba Aria Competition and a recipient of an encouragement award from the Career Bridges Foundation.
© CSAM, August 2025
