Praised for her “beautiful, limpid quality (Theatre Jones)“ and "angelic singing (Reading Eagle),” Erin Alcorn is a soprano originally from Dallas, Texas. This season Erin will appear in the role of Miss Littlefoot in Fellow Travelers with CCM Opera. As a soloist, she will appear with the Greater Dallas Choral Society (formally Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas), the CCM Wind Symphony in Eric Whitacre’s Goodnight Moon and the Dayton Bach Society in Handel’s Israel in Egypt.

 

In Cincinnati Opera's 2022 Summer Festival, Erin covered the role of Musetta in La bohème. In April 2022, Erin appeared as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Mass in C with the University of Cincinnati's CCM Chorale and Chamber Orchestra. She was a Resident Artist with Tri-Cities Opera in its 2020-21 season, performing the role of Adina in The Elixir of Love, Francine in Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers, and covering the role of Miranda in Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience, the latter two works by composer Kamala Sankaram. She was to make her Tri-Cities Opera debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Scalia/ Ginsburg (Wang), and Clorinda in La cenerentola, but all were canceled due to the pandemic.

 

Erin has held artist residencies with Music Academy of the West (2017), The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall (2017), and The Dallas Opera Outreach (2014-2015).

 

Erin has performed as a soloist in concert for the Music Academy of the West, Dallas Puccini Society, Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas, Voces Intimae: The art of Song, Reading Choral Society, and Pennsbury Community Chorus in several great halls including the Winspear Opera House with The Dallas Opera Orchestra, Meyerson Symphony Center with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, and the Murchison Performing Arts Center with the University of North Texas (UNT) Symphony Orchestra. 

 

Erin has performed the role of Elvira in scenes from i Puritani at Music Academy of the West, Adina in The Elixir of Love with The Dallas Opera Outreach program, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with the Oberlin in Italy Opera Theater,  Zerlina in Don Giovanni with UNT Opera, La Bergère in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges with Oberlin Opera, and Casilda in The Gondoliers with the Oberlin Gilbert and Sullivan Society. She has been a core opera chorus member of Opera Philadelphia and Cincinnati Opera.

 

On the contemporary side, Erin was invited to sing in Steve Reich’s
Music for 18 Musicians and David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. She performed the soprano role in the staged production of Exercices de Style by French- Canadian composer José Evangelista with Oberlin Opera Theater.

 

Erin is currently working towards a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM). She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the University of North Texas.