Lauded for her unique versatility and pristine clarity, Chloe Sundet is a coloratura soprano from East Wenatchee, Washington. As an adaptable artist, she is sought after for operas, operettas, musicals, and concerts. She has performed with companies such as Pacific Opera Project, Opera Neo, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, American Contemporary Ballet, Opera Buffs, Leavenworth Summer Theater, University of Southern California and Whitworth University. Her performance of Mabel in Pacific Opera Project’s production of The Pirates of Penzance received critical acclaim from reviewers across Los Angeles. Stage and Cinema wrote, “Chloe Sundet – terrific in coloratura singing, dramatic range, and comedic effect – produces pitch-perfect trills'' while Local Pasadena News considers her “a young lyric soprano with serious star power.” The production won Best Opera Performance by San Francisco Classical Voice, beating out LA Opera’s world premiere of Omar. She then was invited back by Pacific Opera Project to sing Adele in Die Fledermaus in February of 2024. A lover of new music, Sundet was recently seen in a double bill production with the Thornton School of Music as the role of the Daughter in Phillip Glass and Robert Moran’s The Juniper Tree and the soprano role of the quartet in Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone.
Other favorite credits include: Nina (Chérubin), Morgana (Alcina), Mabel (Pirates of Penzance), Daphné (Actéon), Liesl (The Sound of Music), Silver Dollar (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Jo (Little Women the Musical), Rapunzel (Into the Woods) and Wednesday (The Addams Family).
In spring of 2024, she collaborated with Frieze Studios from London, a leading international contemporary art fair, to sing as part of their art exhibition in Los Angeles. She performed art songs of Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Purcell and Barber, curating a program full of texts reflecting scenes of spring and ideas of humanity returning to the earth. Sundet has also sung as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Columbia Chorale, soprano soloist in excerpts of Handel’s Messiah with Whitworth University, and the soprano soloist in Saint-Saëns Oratorio de Noël with Rolling Hills Methodist Church of Los Angeles. She has performed as a guest artist with Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra in 2017 as the first place winner of the Angela Schuster Svendsen Memorial Young Artist Competition with the famous aria, “Deh vieni non tardar” from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and was invited back to sing “The Promise of Living'' from Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land in 2021. She is honored to return to WVSO under the baton of Nikolas Caoile as the soprano soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella in Fall of 2024.
Sundet has also worked as a character performer in the role of Snow White at the Disneyland Resort. As an accomplished pianist, Chloe enjoys playing an eclectic mix of classical, contemporary and musical theater repertoire and has competed at the state level, winning several categories. In May 2024, she graduated with a Master of Music in Vocal Arts from the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California.
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