Alisa Jordheim

Described as “vocally resplendent, “powerful,” and possessing “impeccable coloratura” (San Francisco Chronicle), versatile soprano Alisa Jordheim is praised for her compelling and vocally assured performances in opera, concert, musical theatre, new music, early music, and recital.

On the opera stage, she has portrayed a variety of roles including Violetta (La traviata), Gilda (Rigoletto), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Ninetta (La gazza ladra), Musetta (La bohème), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Cunégonde (Candide), Venus (Venus and Adonis), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), and Lola, a role she created and commercially recorded in the world premiere of Robert Aldridge’s Sister Carrie. Ms. Jordheim has appeared with companies including Opéra national de Paris, San Diego Opera, Central City Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Virginia Opera, Atlanta Opera, Cincinnati Opera, the Caramoor International Music Festival, George Enescu Festival, Florentine Opera, and Teatro Nuovo at Lincoln Center. She is a frequent soloist on the concert stage singing repertoire spanning from Händel’s Messiah to Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 to Torke’s Book of Proverbs to musical theatre with ensembles including the Grant Park Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic, Ensemble Pygmalion, Bochumer Symphoniker, Baltimore Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Pacific Symphony, and New Philharmonic.

Ms. Jordheim has a strong interest in Scandinavian vocal repertoire and frequently performs works by Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish composers in recital. An acclaimed interpreter of Lori Laitman’s music, Ms. Jordheim recorded Five Lovers with pianist Andrew Rosenblum on the Naxos label and Fresh Patterns, a song cycle written for her, with soprano Patrice Michaels and pianist Andrew Rosenblum on the Acis label. Her recordings of Rami Levin’s Três Canções and Four English Songs can also be heard on Acis.

Ms. Jordheim is an alumna of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, Central City Opera’s Young Artist Program, Florentine Opera Studio, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is a grand prize winner of the Rose Bampton Award from The Sullivan Foundation, two-time winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council district auditions, and the recipient of a Fulbright Foundation Scholarship and American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship to study Scandinavian lyric diction and song in Norway.

Visit Ms. Jordeim’s website here.