In the ‘24-‘25 season, Ms. Dunigan made her international concert debut at the ‘Nuits Pianistiques de Moldavie’ festival, alongside co-founder and conductor Valentin Doni, in Chișinău, Moldova. She most recently appeared in a performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater as part of the Concerts in the Village music series in New York.
Described by Opera News as a “regal bearing, sparkling soprano”, soprano Caroline Dunigan is establishing herself as a performer of wide artistic range and musical versatility.
In the ‘24-‘25 season, Ms. Dunigan made her international concert debut at the ‘Nuits Pianistiques de Moldavie’ festival, alongside co-founder and conductor Valentin Doni, in Chișinău, Moldova. She most recently appeared in a performance of Rossini’s Stabat Mater as part of the Concerts in the Village music series in New York.
In recent seasons, Caroline has performed in Verdi’s La Traviata conducted by George Manahan at the Aspen Opera Center as well as Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzter, op.52, alongside pianist Peter Serkin at the Cosmopolitan Club in NYC. Additionally, Caroline has appeared as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio with the Broad Street Orchestra, Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Brevard Music Center, and as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Bard College Conservatory of Music at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Caroline made her concert debut with the Albany Symphony Orchestra in “Star Wars: The Opera”, conducted by David Alan Miller, The Orchestra Now in Handel’s Messiah, conducted by Leon Botstein, and the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten, conducted by James Bagwell. Additional concert works include Haydn’s The Creation, Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Serenade to Music, Mendelssohn’s Symphony–Cantata Lobgesang, op. 52, Saint-Saëns’ La Nuit, and Cherubini’s Chant sur la Mort de Joseph Haydn with the Broad Street Orchestra and Chorale.
Additional performance highlights include Eurinda in La Doriclea with the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater, First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore, the Dew Fairy in Hänsel und Gretel, and Dolly in The Threepenny Opera, with the Brevard Music Center. Caroline has participated in masterclasses led by American theater director Peter Sellars, French conductor Pierre Vallet, and American sopranos Phyllis Curtin and Barbara Bonney at the Tanglewood Institute and the American Institute of Musical Studies. Awards include an Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a Semi-Finalist Award from the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition.
Ms. Dunigan holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and is an alumna of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, led by soprano Dawn Upshaw.