American soprano Caitlin Aloia enjoys a flourishing career in opera, chamber music, and art song, with particular recognition for her work in contemporary music.

This season, she starred in the world premiere of The Shadow in Theo Chandler’s So You May Breathe in Light with Loop38 at MATCH Houston. She also presented two solo recitals on the Music at the Meeting House series, collaborating with pianists Chelsea de Souza and James Palmer. Additional highlights include covering the soprano soloist in Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the Houston Ballet and performing in a Houston Laffont Competition-sponsored recital alongside baritone Luke Sutliff.

A committed advocate for new music, Ms. Aloia premiered Son of Man by Patrick Hawes with the Houston Symphony and Houston Chamber Choir, and created the title role in the U.S. premiere of Daniel Knaggs’ Zita di Lucca. She also gave the world premieres of Upon Further Reflection at Rice University and Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly by Karim Al-Zand in 2024.

In the 2023–2024 season, Ms. Aloia performed Musetta in La Bohème with Opera in the Heights and participated in the workshop of So You May Breathe in Light. She made her professional and role debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Proserpina in L’Orfeo, orchestrated by Nico Muhly, and appeared in the choruses of Rusalka, Tosca, and The Flying Dutchman. Other operatic credits include La Fortuna (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Governess (The Turn of the Screw), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Poppea (Agrippina), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), La Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), and La Princesse (L’enfant et les Sortilèges).

In 2022, she was an Apprentice Artist at Santa Fe Opera, performing in Carmen, Falstaff, and the world premiere of M. Butterfly. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Carolyn Bailey Argento Fellowship for Vocal Performance and first prize winner of the 2022 NOA Vocal Competition.

An ardent recitalist and chamber musician, Ms. Aloia was a 2021 fellow at Marlboro Music Festival, where she performed with internationally acclaimed artists in works by Villa-Lobos, Brahms, and Harbison, including the premiere of a new movement from In the Early Evening. She produced and performed a chamber recital at Rice University featuring students from Professor Nova Thomas’s studio, and made her Houston debut in Knaggs’ Two Streams with the Houston Chamber Choir and KINETIC, alongside mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, under the production of Grammy® Award-winner Blanton Alspaugh.

Earlier performances include Les Illuminations by Britten at Yale University, the premiere of Kari Watson’s Sunburnt Monoliths with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Kati Agócs’ Vessel with the Oberlin Sinfonietta, and the role of the Widow in Mendelssohn’s Elijah at Oberlin. A 2020 Oberlin Concerto Competition winner, her planned return performance of Les Illuminations with the Oberlin Orchestra was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Ms. Aloia is a three-time Encouragement Award winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a recipient of numerous honors including the Margot Bos Stambler ’84 Professional Development Scholarship, Becky and Ralph S. O’Connor Artist Diploma Fellowship, Mary Root Kirkland Prize in Voice, Stephen Dannemiller Scholarship, and the Oberlin Conservatory Dean’s Scholarship.

She has participated in SongFest at the Colburn School as a Colburn Fellow, performing in recitals curated by Jake Heggie, Lydia Brown, and Liza Stepanova, and working closely with composer John Harbison on his Mirabai Songs.

Ms. Aloia holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory, and both a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.