With a voice described as rich, full, and captivating, Swedish-American mezzo-soprano Olivia Ericsson commands attention on stages worldwide. This season, Olivia covered the role of Sesto in dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s production of La clemenza di Tito in New York City. She also appeared as a soloist in several of the company’s 2025 German lieder concert programs. In the same year, she joined VOICES Boston as a soloist for its 35th Anniversary Concert at Jordan Hall. 

Last season, Olivia covered the female lead in the contemporary opera Tickets Please! with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. In July 2024, Olivia returned to the Wintergreen Music Festival for her second summer as the alto soloist in Marianna Martines’ Dixit Dominus with the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, sang Brahms’ Zwei Gesänge, and premiered Carlos Gonzalez’s Bequest for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra.

Highlights from Olivia’s 2022/23 season include her Swedish debut at Drottningholms Slottsteater (Stockholm Palace Theater) with the Stockholm Konstnärliga Högskola, performing the role of Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Her 2023 engagements at Wintergreen included the world premiere of Green Me by Nicholas Ryan Kelly. Additional concert highlights include appearing as the female soloist in the world premiere of The Fantom of the Fair by Libby Larsen at the Seminar on New Music at the Rivers School Conservatory (2014).

Olivia was named a finalist in the 2023 Kentucky Bach Choir Audrey Rooney Vocal Competition and won first prize in the Great Composers Competition Series. She was the 2019 recipient of the Boston University Opera Departmental Award for outstanding musical achievement and was awarded the University of Michigan Merit Scholarship for musical talent and potential.

Notable opera roles include Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Stockholm konstnärliga högskola), Ruggiero in Alcina (Chicago Summer Opera), Dorabella in Così fan tutte (Lyric Opera Studio Weimar), Hansel in Hansel and Gretel (Comic Opera Guild & New York Lyric Opera), Dritte Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Berlin Opera Academy), Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro (Berlin Opera Academy), and the title role of the University of Michigan’s production of La Susanna.

Olivia lives in New York City and enjoys running, pilates, ballet, and playing with her greyhound Max.