About Caitlin

Soprano Caitlin Aloia enjoys a flourishing career in opera, chamber music, and art song. This season, Ms. Aloia performs the role of Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème with Opera in the Heights in Houston, TX. In 2023, she made her professional and role debut at the Santa Fe Opera as Proserpina in L’Orfeo, orchestrated by Nico Muhly. She also appeared in the choruses of Rusalka, Tosca, and The Flying Dutchman. Ms. Aloia was granted her third Encouragement Award in the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition at the district level. She also performed the role of La Fortuna in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea at Rice University. In the summer of 2022, Caitlin was an Apprentice Artist at Santa Fe in the choruses of Carmen, Falstaff, and the world premiere of M. Butterfly. She is also the inaugural winner of the Carolyn Bailey Argento Fellowship for Vocal Performance, as well as the first prize winner in the 2022 NOA Vocal Competition. Her opera credits include Governess (Turn of the Screw), Blanche (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Soprano Trio Member (Trouble in Tahiti), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), La Princesse (L’enfant et les Sortilèges), Poppea (Agrippina), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), and La Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro).

An ardent recitalist, Ms. Aloia enjoys a passion for both art song and chamber music.  In 2021, she was a fellow at the Marlboro Music Festival, where she performed alongside internationally acclaimed artists in Vermont. There, she performed Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Villa-Lobos), Drei Quartette, Op. 64 (Brahms), and Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 (Brahms). There, she performed In the Early Evening by John Harbison, and made the world premiere of the fourth song in that set. She produced and performed in a chamber music recital at Rice University featuring the Shepherd School’s finest musicians, including singers from the studio of Professor Nova Thomas. Caitlin made her Houston debut as a soloist in Daniel Knaggs’ “Two Streams” with the Houston Chamber Choir and KINETIC, alongside mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and produced by Grammy® Award-winning producer Blanton Alspaugh. In the 2019-2020 season, she performed Britten’s Les Illuminations at Yale University, gave the world premiere of her classmate Kari Watson’s work Sunburnt Monoliths with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and performed Kati Agocs’ Vessel with the Oberlin Sinfonietta.  She also appeared as the Widow in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oberlin College Choir, Musical Union and Chamber Orchestra alongside nationally-acclaimed baritone and Oberlin voice faculty member Timothy LeFebvre.  A 2020 Oberlin Concerto Competition Winner, Ms. Aloia was due to return to Oberlin to perform Les Illuminations with the Oberlin Orchestra in December, but it was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Caitlin is a three-time Encouragement Award winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council District auditions. Caitlin was a fellow at the 2020 Bach Institute at Emmanuel Music. She was awarded the Margot Bos Stambler ’84 Professional Development Scholarship, recognizing her great promise in the field of classical singing.  She is also the recipient of the Becky and Ralph S O'Connor Artist Diploma Fellowship, the Mary Root Kirkland Prize in Voice, the Stephen Dannemiller Scholarship through Voices of Canton, and the Oberlin Conservatory Dean’s Scholarship.  Aloia has frequented Songfest at the Colburn School as a Colburn Fellow for two years. There, she coached and performed Mirabai Songs with John Harbison on the “New Voices in Song” concert at the culmination of the program. She also appeared on various recitals programmed by Jake Heggie, Lydia Brown, and Liza Stepanova.

Ms. Aloia holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. In May, Caitlin will graduate from the Shepherd School with her Artist Diploma under the tutelage of Professor Nova Thomas.