Praised for her "beautiful, limpid quality" (Theatre Jones) and "angelic singing" (Reading Eagle), soprano Erin Alcorn brings a distinctive combination of vocal brilliance and artistic versatility to every stage.

​

Erin has built a rich operatic career spanning some of the country's most celebrated companies, including Cincinnati Opera, Queen City Opera, The Dallas Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Tri-Cities Opera, and Music Academy of the West. Her role portfolio is equally impressive — highlights include Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers (Spears), Adina in The Elixir of Love (Donizetti), Susanna and Zerlina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Papagena, Pamina, and Second Spirit in Die Zauberflöte, Francine in Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers (Sankaram), La Bergère in L'enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), and Casilda in The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan). In Cincinnati Opera's 2022 Summer Festival, she covered the role of Musetta in La bohème.

​

As a recitalist and concert soloist, Erin has graced some of the most prestigious stages in the country. She has appeared as soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with the University of Findlay and Bluffton University under conductor SeaHwa Jung, and has performed with The Song Continues at Carnegie Hall, the Greater Dallas Choral Society at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Cincinnati Song Initiative, LYNX Ensemble, Dayton Bach Society, Dallas Puccini Society, Voces Intimae, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, the CCM Wind Symphony, and the UNT Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

​

A passionate advocate for the future of performance, Erin is pioneering the intersection of classical music and emerging technology. As part of her doctoral research, she partnered with the University of Cincinnati, UC Digital Futures, and Cincinnati Song Initiative to produce the world's first art song performance in virtual reality — earning First Place and the Audience Choice Award in the UC GradNEXT competition, Third Place in the UC Three-Minute Dissertation Competition, and a CCMPower grant. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also covered the role of Miranda in Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience (Sankaram), one of the world's first VR operas. Her dissertation, "Reimagining Art Song: A New Era of Audience Engagement Through VR," is available to experience here.

​

Erin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance with a focus in Pedagogy from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), a Master of Music from the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.