Elisa Sutherland

 Elisa Sutherland is a mezzo-soprano known for her detailed, stylistic interpretations of both early and new music. She is a member of The Crossing, Ekmeles, Fonema Consort, and her own early and new music sextet, Variant 6. She has performed as a guest with the Clarion Choir, the New Chamber Ballet, Roomful of Teeth, and Miami’s Seraphic Fire; and as a soloist with TENET Vocal Artists, Apollo’s Fire, American Bach Soloists, Apollo Chorus of Chicago, and Quicksilver Baroque. She has sung art song with LyricFest and the Brooklyn Art Song Society.

She was a 2015 winner of the Philadelphia District of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, a 2014 winner of the Lynne Harvey Cooper Award, and the first-place winner of the inaugural Handel Aria Competition at the Madison Early Music Festival in 2013. Recent opera roles include Hera in Chris Cerrone’s All Wounds Bleed, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Meg in Little Women, Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Nancy in Albert Herring.

Elisa graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance. She lives in Brooklyn.