Soprano Alina Tamborini has been praised by The New York Times as "unusually big-voiced and feisty," with New York Classical Review describing her voice as "dazzling with beauty and sensitivity." Next up she will be performing the role of Aline in The Sorcerer with Winter Opera St. Louis. 

Last season, Ms. Tamborini took the stage as Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice with Libero Canto, Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Bronx Opera, Adele in Die Fledermaus with Opera Magnifico, Claire Clairmont in the world premiere of Gemma Peacocke’s A Strange Power with Princeton Sound Kitchen, and Gloria in Handel’s Olinto pastore, Tebro fiume, Gloria, HWV 143 with La Grande Bande.

Ms. Tamborini recently marked her return to Lincoln Center as Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Teatro Nuovo. As a regular artist with Teatro Nuovo, she performed in their tribute to Maria Callas’s 100th birthday - Callas: Past and Future, covered Amina in La Sonnambula, brought live opera back to New York City’s stages in 2021 as Berta in Il barbiere di Siviglia, made her Lincoln Center debut in 2019 as Isoletta in La Straniera with, and was an Apprentice Artist for their inaugural season. In recent seasons, she performed with Bel Cantanti Opera as Adele in Die Fledermaus, and with Bronx Opera as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Sofia in Il signor Bruschino, Blanche in The Dialogues of the Carmélites, and Servilia in La clemenza di Tito. She premiered Nirmali Fenn’s When Apathy Becomes Betrayal and Eliza Brown’s In the Age of the Rise with the Contemporary Chamber Players and sang the soprano solo in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Earlier roles include Frasquita in Carmen and Mrs. Hayes in Susannah with Opera in the Ozarks, along with performances at the Vancouver International Song Institute. In 2016, she made her international debut in a Bernstein Revue at the Peking National Opera House and the China Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Tamborini’s notable engagements with Michigan State University Opera Theatre include Despina in Così fan tutte, Romilda in Serse, Miss Lavish in A Room With a View, and Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore. At Stony Brook Opera, her roles included Aminta in Il re Pastore, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Céphise in Pigmalion, and Adele in Die Fledermaus.

Ms. Tamborini has garnered numerous competition accolades throughout her career. She recently won the Utah District Finals of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and went on to compete in the Rocky Mountain Regional Finals. In recent seasons, she won Second Place in The Century Opera’s Lucine Amara Art Song Competition, was a finalist for the Orpheus Vocal Competition, and was a semi-finalist for Opera Index, MIOpera, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs’ Emerging Soloist Competitions. She also won the 2020 Riverside Opera Competition and made her Carnegie Hall debut after placing third in the Talents of the World International Voice Competition. Additionally, she has been a semi-finalist for the Orpheus Vocal Competition, Premiere Opera Foundation & NYIOP Competition, Annapolis Opera Competition, 5 Towns Music and Art Foundation Music Competition, Lyra Mozart Competition, and Camille Coloratura Awards. Other honors include First Prize in the Elaine Malbin and Mario Lanza Competition, The North International Music Competition, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition (Junior Woman’s Division), and finalist in the Harold Haugh Light Opera Vocal Competition. 

Ms. Tamborini has performed as a guest artist and soloist with GraceMusic, St. Mary Star of the Sea, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Stony Brook Chamber Orchestra, and in numerous recital programs. 

A native of Michigan, Ms. Tamborini holds a Master of Music from Stony Brook University, where she studied under Brenda Harris, and a Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University, where she studied with Dr. Anne Nispel.