Olivia Johnson
mezzo-soprano
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Die schlaue Füchsin:
December 10th, 2025 @ 19:00- 20:45, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Oberer Schloßgarten 6
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
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Die Zauberflöte:
January 10th, 2025 @ 19:00- 22:00, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Oberer Schloßgarten 6
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
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Die Zauberflöte:
February 16th, 2025 @ 19:00- 22:00, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Oberer Schloßgarten 6
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
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The Dream of Gerontius:
February 21st, 2025 @ 19:00- 21:00, Liederhalle, Beethovensaal
Berliner Platz 3
70174 Stuttgart, Germany
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Carmen:
February 22nd, 2025 @ 19:00- 22:30, Staatsoper Stuttgart
Oberer Schloßgarten 6
70173 Stuttgart, Germany
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Photo Credit: Matthias Baus
Bio
Mezzo-soprano, Olivia Johnson has been heralded by Opera News as a “standout... commanding and reassuring, with the timbre of a contralto and the astounding upper extension of a dramatic mezzo” for her portrayal of Girlfriend 3 in Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s opera, Blue (Detroit Opera, 2021).
This season, Olivia Johnson has returned to Staatsoper Stuttgart’s International Opera Studio. She is scheduled to appear again as Emilia in Otello, Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, and 2nd Fairy/Mystery/Attendant/Summer/2ndWoman in Purcell’s Fairy Queen. Olivia will also make her debut as Frau Försterin/Eule in Die schlaue Füchsin and Sista in JOiN/Nord’s new production of Chaos. She will also be returning to the role of Mercédès in Staatsoper Stuttgart’s production of Carmen.
Last season, Olivia Johnson joined Staatsoper Stuttgart’s International Opera Studio very her very first season with the company. There she made her German debut in the role of Inez in Verdi’s Il Trovatore. Following Il Trovatore, Johnson appeared in the role of Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Emalia in Verdi’s Otello, and 2nd Fairy/Mystery/Attendant/Summer/2nd Woman in JOiN/Nord’s production of Purcell’s Fairy Queen.
Before moving to Germany, Johnson competed in the 40th Annual Cooper-Bing Competition Finals where she placed 4th. During the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Johnson had the privilege of making her debut at The Metropolitan Opera as an Alto I soloist in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis. Afterwards, she returned to Seattle Opera to reprise the same role in their production of Malcolm X. Then a few weeks later Ms. Johnson returned to the West Coast to make her debut with Berkeley Symphony as the mezzo soprano soloist for Laura Karpaman’s Ask Your Mama. Ms. Johnson is also honored to be a recipient of the Bagby Foundation Career Grant this season. The grant is awarded to support the studies of emerging artists that show great promise within the music field.
In the summer of 2023, she was featured as a Gerdine Young Artist in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Summer Festival. Nearing the end of the festival, Ms. Johnson had the most exhilarating evening where she stepped in as the cover for Monisha making her debut in Damien Sneed and Karen Chilton’s reimagined opera of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha. Wall Street Journal noted that “Olivia Johnson … delivered with aplomb the aria in which Treemonisha’s mother recounts her daughter’s origins”. While at OTSL, she also covered the malicious smalltown bully, Mrs. McLean in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and was featured in OTSL’s Center Stage with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra singing Pauline in the Pique Dame Duet, Charlotte in Sondheim’s “A Weekend in the Country” and Larina in the Act II Finale of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
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