Praised for her “beautiful, limpid quality” (TheaterJones) and “angelic singing” (Reading Eagle), soprano Erin Alcorn most recently appeared as Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and as Toadette in Queen City Opera’s Super Flute (Mozart’s The Magic Flute framed within a Super Mario Bros. game), for which she also covered the role of Papagena. She has performed with Opera Philadelphia, The Dallas Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, and Music Academy of the West. She covered the role of Musetta in Cincinnati Opera’s 2022 Summer Festival production of La bohème, and has appeared in roles such as Adina in The Elixir of Love, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

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On the concert stage she has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with The Song Continues and at the Meyerson Symphony Center with the Greater Dallas Choral Society, as well as with the Dayton Bach Society, Cincinnati Song Initiative, the CCM Wind Symphony, and the CCM Concert Chorale and Chamber Orchestra. In the 2026–27 season she returns to the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble under the baton of Dr. Kevin Holzman as the soprano soloist in Ticheli’s Angels in the Architecture, and appears as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah with St. Gertrude Church and Madison Avenue Christian Church.

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A passionate advocate for access to the arts, Erin is pioneering the intersection of classical music and emerging technology. In 2020 she covered the title role in Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience with Tri-Cities Opera, sparking an avid interest in immersive digital performance. As part of her doctoral research in audience development and digital immersive performance, she produced and sang in Creating Song in 360, a collaboration with the UC Digital Futures Digital Performance Lab (DPL) and Cincinnati Song Initiative that culminated in the world’s first art song performance in virtual reality. The project took First Place and the Audience Choice Award at the UC GradNEXT competition and Third Place in the UC Three-Minute Dissertation Competition. Building on that research, she co-produced and sings in It Has Looked Inside of You: A VR180 operatic horror, made with the DPL and CCM, and will premiere it with

Cincinnati Opera in October 2026. The work features a newly commissioned aria, “Crystal Ball,” composed by Stephen Variames with poetry by Cincinnati local Timothy Grimm.

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Erin joined the CCM acting faculty in 2025, teaching voice production and singing to actors. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from CCM, a Master of Music from the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.