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Alma Neuhaus

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American mezzo-soprano Alma Neuhaus sings with a passion for opera, art song, and Golden Age repertoire. Praised for a voice “that is as velvety as it is voluminous” (Salzburger Nachrichten), she was named the Liederkranz Foundation Prize winner in the Gerda Lissner 2021 Lieder/Song Competition and was a finalist in the 2022 Neue Stimmen Competition in Gütersloh, Germany. She performed with Les Arts Florissants as Filide in Handel’s Aminta e Filide under the direction of William Christie and was listed in the The Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition Winners Concert on the stage of Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. Alma joined the Salzburger Festspiele as a member of the 2022 Young Singer’s Project, performing as Seconda Cercatrice in Il Trittico: Suor Angelica and as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal with the Wiener Philharmoniker. She was then selected to sing in the 2023 SWR Junge Opernstars Concerts with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

Alma is a current member of the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio. This season will include role debuts as Tisbe in La Cenerentola and as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. 

In 2020/21, Alma was named a Winner of the Connecticut District of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She made her role debut as Arcane in Handel’s Teseo with Juilliard Opera and presented Mussorgsky’s The Nursery in concert with pianist Grace Francis. Alma performed with Lincoln Center Restart Stages, including concerts at Alice Tully Hall and Damrosch Park with works by Grieg, Handel, and JS Bach. She was also a featured soloist in recordings with Juilliard415 of the cantata BVW 69: Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele and with The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists in John Corigliano’s Fern Hill on the 2021 album Come to the Woods.

She served as a Vocal Fellow for the Music Academy of the West in 2020 and 2021, performing as Sandman in the video production of Hänsel und Gretel, in the film Mirrorflores: Cinematic Opera, and in concerts at the Lobero Theater and Granada Theater. She joined the Bach Roots Festival in the Twin Cities in 2021, performing as an Alto Soloist in JS Bach’s BWV 97: In allen meinen Taten, BWV 243: Magnificat in D, and Kuhnau’s Magnificat in C.

In the 2019/20 season, Alma performed as Jenny Reefer/Anna Hope at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the MetLiveArts production of The Mother of Us All, a collaboration with The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic. She then made her David Geffen Hall debut with the New York Philharmonic singing in Debussy’s Nocturnes under the direction of Louis Langrée. In recital, she presented Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben with pianist Seoyon MacDonald in Paul Recital Hall at The Juilliard School. She joined pianist Bronwyn Schuman in performing Caplet’s Le Vieux Coffret with the Juilliard Liederabend Recital Series coached by Cameron Stowe, and performed a set of Schubert Lieder with pianist Linda Ruan on the fortepiano as a part of Juilliard Chamber Music.

Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Alma Neuhaus holds a Master of Music from The Juilliard School where she studied with Cynthia Hoffmann and is a proud recipient of the Novick Career Advancement Grant. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from St. Olaf College where she studied with Anna Mooy. She is currently based in Vienna, Austria.

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