Olivia Gronenthal, mezzo-soprano

This season, mezzo-soprano Olivia Gronenthal brings her dramatic intensity and vocal agility to the role of Elizabeth Cree in Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree. She recently appeared as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, a co-production of OPERA San Antonio and Austin Opera, and debuted as the Super Fan in Nathan Felix’s Glory Gone at the Radius Center. As the mezzo opera resident with the Lakes Area Music Festival, she covered Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and appeared as a featured soloist with the festival orchestra for their Aria Night concert.

A fearless interpreter of new and psychologically complex work, Gronenthal originated the role of Miep Gies in the world premiere of Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank and premiered Elizabeth Gartman’s New Motive Power. She was also a featured artist in the 2020 Song Genesis Project, performing the premiere of Abaude on Cold Moon.

Her past operatic roles span both classic and contemporary repertoire, including Mrs. Nolan (The Medium), Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), performed at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.

In concert, she was featured in An Evening on Broadway with Nathan and Julie Jordan Gunn and has sung as a Studio Artist and soloist with OPERA San Antonio–Classical Music Institute.

She earned degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Deanne Meek and Peter Volpe.