Baltimore-based soprano Erin Perry (she/her) is a lyric coloratura with a passion for historically-informed classical music. Erin has been hailed as a strong actress with great expressive capabilities and a silvery, clear voice. She engages in many musical styles ranging from the Renaissance to present day, but her greatest loves are baroque opera, oratorio, and choral chamber music. Erin is pursuing a graduate voice performance degree at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She currently studies with American sopranoElizabeth Futral. She will graduate with a Master of Music degree in spring of 2026. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance with an emphasis in music history from the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, where she studied with American mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby.

Erin has had the privilege of singing with Cleveland Opera Theatre, Baldwin Wallace Voice Performance Opera, Chicago Summer Opera and Peabody Opera in venues such as The Helen Theater at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, OH, and The Baltimore Theater Project in Baltimore, MD. Erin’s favorite roles include Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Cleopatra in Händel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, and Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. Her most recent operatic role was Diana in Cavalli’s La Calisto. Erin has also collaborated with many young composers through the Peabody Institute’s opera etudes project, which pairs student composers with singers to workshop new opera scenes. Other new music projects include the 2021 world premiere of Libby Larsen’s micro-opera Pandora Jones, the 2023 world premiere of Griffin Candey’s opera La Casa de Bernarda Alba, and the 2023 Midwest premiere of Nkieru Okoye’s We’ve Got Our Eye on You. 

In addition to opera, Erin is an ardent lover of oratorio and concert repertoire. Her major projects have included Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, and Mass in B-Minor, as well as Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. This spring, Erin collaborated with the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble under the baton of Dr. Beth Willer to perform the U.S. premiere of Tim Brady’s Symphony No. 7: This One is Broken in Pieces for voice and electric guitar. In May of 2025, she will perform in the semi-chorus of Orff’s Carmina Burana alongside the Peabody Symphony Orchestra at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD.

Erin’s musical passion goes beyond performance; she holds a degree emphasis in music history from Baldwin Wallace University, where she participated in many projects including research on Czech composer Jan L. Dussek for the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. In the summer of 2023, Erin became a Summer Scholarship Fellow at Baldwin Wallace University, researching ethical performance practice in the 21st-century opera industry with a focus on musical and cultural exoticism in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. This project culminated in a research paper and presentation to both the Summer Scholarship cohort in 2023 and Baldwin Wallace’s university-wide student research showcase in 2024. This impactful experience inspired Erin’s artistic mission to create relevant, socially-conscious art that informs the sensibilities and simultaneously serves the needs of modern audiences.