Swedish-American mezzo-soprano Olivia Ericsson graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a BM in vocal performance. Most recently, Olivia returned to the Wintergreen Music Festival, for her second summer, as the alto soloist in the Martines Dixit Dominus with the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra. She also performed the Brahms Zwei Gesänge at the 2024 Wintergreen Chamber Music Concert. In June 2024, Olivia covered the female lead in the contemporary opera Tickets Please! with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble in New York City. She also gave an Early Music recital accompanied by organ at the Juilliard School. Highlights from Olivia’s 2022/23 season include her Swedish debut at Drottningholm Slottsteater (Stockholm Palace Theater) with the Stockholm konstnärliga högskola as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. 

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, hiking, dancing ballet, and playing with her greyhound Max.