American soprano Erica Petrocelli has recently completed tenures as a Studio member with Opernhaus Zürich and with the Domingo-Colburn-Stein young artist program at LA Opera. In the 2022–23 season, Petrocelli returns to Opernhaus Zürich as a guest, first for Musetta in La bohème, and later as the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte. She also collaborates with James Conlon at the Baltimore Symphony to sing Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah and to sing concert performances with the Ravinia Festival as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, also with James Conlon.
In the 2021–22 season, Petrocelli performed Pamina in The Magic Flute at Opera Theater of St. Louis and also joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for Mozart’s Requiem. At LA Opera, she sang Clorinda in La Cenerentola and The Shepherd in Tannhäuser and, as a Studio member in Zürich, performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Delia in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, and covered the title role in Arabella and Stella in Les contes d’Hoffmann.
In the 2019–20 season, Petrocelli sang Musetta in La bohème and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte at LA Opera, both conducted by James Conlon. She also made her principal debut at Opera Theatre of St. Louis singing Micaëla in Carmen. In the 2018–19 season, she made her LA Opera debut as Mrs. Naidoo in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha, conducted by Grant Gershon, and appeared as Annina in La traviata, also conducted by James Conlon. Other season highlights included her role debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.