Praised for the “exceptional wealth of colors” of her voice (Opernwelt) and her singing of “exquisite, inexhaustible sweetness” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Olivia Vermeulen has established herself as one of the leading vocal artists in today’s classical music scene.
Olivia Vermeulen
Soprano
Her performances span a wide range of repertoire, from early music to 21st-century works, stunning audiences worldwide. After celebrating her debut at the Opéra national de Paris in 2019 in a landmark production of Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio conducted by René Jacobs and directed by Romeo Castellucci, Olivia Vermeulen joined the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra for an international tour as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni . She also returned to Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden, where in 2016 she had made her tumultuously celebrated debut in the lead role of Turno in Steffani’s Amor Vien dal Destino . In 2018, she debuted with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor conducted by Daniel Harding.