Highlights of the 2024/25 season include house and role debuts as Alice in Verdi Falstaff at Opéra national de Paris and Annina in Verdi La Traviata with Le cercle de l’Harmonie at the Philharmonie de Paris. Boen will make a trio of role debuts for the Staatsoper Hamburg, as Servilla in Mozart La clemenza di Tito, Pamina in Mozart Die Zauberflöte and Sifare in Mozart Mitridate, re di Ponto. On the concert platform, Boen will give the UK premiere of Hans Abrahamsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs with The Philharmonia Orchestra, performs Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Hauptkirche St. Jacobi Hamburg and makes her debut with Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Britten Les Illuminations.
Previous highlights on the concert platform include debuts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in the title role of Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri with the musicians of St. Michaelis Musik, and with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as Gretel in a concert performance of Humperdink Hänsel und Gretel at the Bridgewater Hall cond. Sir Andrew Davis. Other notable concert appearances include Beethoven ‘Ah, Perfido!’ with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Christoph Altstaedt, Dvorak Stabat Mater with the Grant Park Music Festival & Vier letzte Lieder with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican.
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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