Until the 23/24 season, Olivia was a member of the Opernstudio at the Staatsoper Hamburg, where she sung Gretel in Humperdink Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta in Puccini La bohème and Anna in Nabucco, in addition to creating the roles of Xenia in Frank Castorf’s new production of Mussorgsky Boris Godunov and Inez in Immo Karamon’s new production of Verdi Il Trovatore. On the concert platform, Olivia's recent and upcoming plans include the title role Das Paradies und die Peri at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rossini Stabat Mater with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Leon, Mahler 4 with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra cond. by Mark Wigglesworth, Gretel Hansel und Gretel in a concert performance with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Sir Andrew Davis, Beethoven ‘Ah, Perfido!’ with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Annina La Traviata in concert performances at the Philharmonie Paris with Le Cercle de l'Harmonie & Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Grant Park Music Festival. In the 25/26 season Olivia will return to the Opera de Paris.
In 2019, Olivia made her European debut at the Verbier Festival under the baton of Valery Gergiev as Die Stimme des Falken in Strauss Die Frau Ohne Schatten and as Erste Dame in Mozart Die Zauberflöte with Stanislav Kochanovsky. Other roles include Countess Susanna in Wolf-Ferrari Il Segreto di Susanna, Queen Mother in Jonathan Dove The Little Green Swallow, the title roles in Handel Alcina and Serse & Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Lauretta in Puccini Gianni Schicchi and has covered Donna Anna in Mozart Don Giovanni.
A keen recitalist, Olivia has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Song Festival, Opera Holland Park, the Verbier Festival, LSO St. Luke’s, the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series, the Ravinia Festival and toured with the Oxford International Song Festival. Olivia has collaborated on outreach projects with the London Symphony Orchestra and Opera Holland Park, was a member of the Wigmore Hall French Song Exchange led by Dame Felicity Lott and François le Roux, was a Samling Artist, a 2021 City Music Foundation Artist and a Steans Music Institute vocal fellow at the Ravinia Festival.
Olivia was awarded the English Song Prize from the London Song Festival in 2019, first place (Lynne Cooper Harvey Foundation Award) of the Musicians Club of Women Competition in 2018, a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for Musicians in 2018, and first place at the Tuesday Musical Competition in 2017.
Olivia trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she was a 2021 Gold Medal finalist, and has completed additional training at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Verbier Festival, Internationale Meistersinger Akademie and the Ravinia Steans Music Institute.
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