Olivia Boen

American soprano Olivia Boen had an early start on the operatic stage when at the age of six, she appeared at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as one of the gingerbread chorus children in Hänsel und Gretel. In the 2022-23 season, she comes full circle as she makes her debut as Gretel at the Staatsoper Hamburg, where she has joined the International Opera Studio. She also makes role debuts as Musetta (La bohème) and Anna (Nabucco), among others. With her “full-bodied, sparkling tone” (Cleveland Classical), Olivia has performed a wide variety of repertoire both on stage and in the recital hall. In 2019, she made her European debut at the Verbier Festival as Die Stimme des Falken in Die Frau Ohne Schatten with Valery Gergiev and as Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Stanislav Kochanovsky. Further