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, Palm Beach 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).
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, Palm Beach 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).
In the 2024/25 the soprano makes her Dallas Opera debut as Mimì in the revival of La bohème directed by Tomer Zvulun and conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. She takes on the role again at the Santa Fe Opera in James Robinson’s production under the baton of Iván López-Reynoso. This season D’Eramo also returns to Theater St. Gallen for her role debut as Chrysothemis in the new production of Elektra by Lisaboa Houbrechts and Modestas Pitrenas.
In the 2023/24 season, Sylvia D’Eramo joined Theater St. Gallen to create the role of Gerda Wegener in Lili Elbe, a world premiere by Grammy Award-winning American composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman. In St. Gallen she made another eagerly anticipated role debut as Elvira in Ernani in a production by Barbora Horáková Joly and maestro Modestas Pitrenas. She reprised her acclaimed performances of Kitty/Vanessa in Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts’ The Hours, which she originated at the Metropolitan Opera in the world-premiere production in 2022. With the Jacksonville Symphony in Florida, Sylvia D’Eramo sang the role of Micaëla in Gregory Keller’s production of Carmen under the baton of Courtney Lewis. On the concert stage, D’Eramo presented a Puccini programme with tenor Jonathan Tetelman at Rudolfinum Dvořák Hall in Prague, performed concerts in Maribor and Ljubljana with tenor Martin Sušnik, and sang Richard Strauss’ sumptuous Vier letzte Lieder in St. Gallen conducted by Modestas Pitrenas.
In the 2022/23 season, in addition to her performances in The Hours, Sylvia D’Eramo joined the Met in the role of Musetta in La bohème conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. She was also heard as Donna Elvira in Brenna Corner’s production of Don Giovanni at the North Carolina Opera and as Maddalena in Andrea Chénier at Theater St.Gallen. On the concert stage, Sylvia appeared with Martin Muehle in Andermatt, Switzerland, alongside Jonathan Tetelman at the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen and with Evan LeRoy Johnson at Musikfest Bremen.
Originally scheduled in the 2021/22 season to make her mainstage debut as Diane in the Metropolitan Opera’s cancelled production of Iphigénie en Tauride, she instead saw her first performances on the prestigious stage as Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto. She made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut, performing Kitty/Vanessa in the concert version of The Hours led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and concluded the season performing the role of Micaela in Santa Fe’s production of Carmen under the baton of Harry Bicket.
Sylvia D’Eramo joined the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program for her inaugural season in 2020/21. In the same season, she debuted the role of Mimì in La bohème under James Gaffigan at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where she was awarded the Thierry Mermod top singer prize.
During the 2019-2020 COVID-affected season, D’Eramo trained with the Los Angeles Opera as a member of the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. She made her company and role debut with Lyric Opera of Kansas City as Musetta in La bohème. In the summer of 2020, she was to become an inaugural member of the Aspen Opera Theater and Vocal ARTS program, led by Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers, singing the role of Rosasharn in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath (cancelled due to COVID-19). She was also slated to join the Britt Festival Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, conducted by Teddy Abrams (cancelled). For the 2018-2019 season, she joined the Benenson Young Artist Program at Palm Beach Opera where she appeared in the Rising Stars Concert, and covered Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Adele in Die Fledermaus. D’Eramo then joined the Glens Falls Symphony as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and returned to Santa Fe Opera for her second year as an Apprentice, where she covered Mimi in La bohème and sang Barena in Jenůfa.
In her first year as a Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist, she was heard as Cugina in Madama Butterfly. During her studies at Yale University, she saw performances as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. In concert, she joined the Marvin Concert Series in her home state of Texas for Verdi’s Requiem, and Yale Philharmonia for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under the baton of Maestro Marin Alsop.
Sylvia D’Eramo can be heard on Albany Records’ 2017 recording of The Crucible by Robert Ward in the role of Abigail Williams. She is a winner in the Lois Alba Aria Competition and the recipient of an encouragement award from the Career Bridges Foundation.
© CSAM, August 2024
