Erin
Ridge

Soprano, Stage Director
Erin Ridge
(she/her) Erin Ridge is an American multidisciplinary artist making a name for herself in the opera industry as both a stage director and a lyric soprano. Combining versatile artistry with a probing intellect and commanding stage presence, Ridge delivers compellingly honest performances both on and off the stage. Described as having an “unflappable spirit”, Ridge’s approach to artistic creation is fastidious in attention to detail and audacious in commitment to bold embodiment.
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Currently Performing
Carmen
Chorus
Wolf Trap Opera
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Erin Ridge

Lauded by the Washington Post as having a “smooth and charismatic lyric soprano”, Erin Ridge is a D.C. based multidisciplinary artist making a name for herself as both a lyric soprano and stage director. On stage, Ridge has applied her versatile artistry to roles including Laura in Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Cleone in Rossini’s Ermione (Washington Concert Opera), Mrs. Coyle in Britten’s Owen Wingrave (National Orchestra Institute), and Sandrina in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera and Vixen in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen (Maryland Opera Studio). An avid competitor, Ridge has won awards with competitions including the American International Czech & Slovak, NSAL Martorella, Pittsburgh Opera’s Mildred Miller as well as competing in many additional prestigious competitions as a semi-finalist this season. Exciting highlights in the upcoming season include concert debuts in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Great Falls Philharmonic and Verdi Requiem soloist with Berklee Community Chorus & Orchestra. Ridge performs regularly across the DMV area as a recitalist, concert soloist, and chorus member with groups including Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Annapolis Opera, Trinity Chamber orchestra and Great Falls Philharmonic.

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Director - Opera & Musical Theatre Scenes Program

2023 - Present
Prague, Czech Republic

Director - Czech Opera Scenes Program

2023 - Present

Director - Suor Angelica

2025 - 2025

Wolf Trap Opera

2023 - 2025
Vienna, VA

Chorus - Carmen

2025 - 2025

Chorus - Don Giovanni

2023 - 2023
Washington, D.C.

Chorus - La Clemenza di Tito

2025 - 2025

Laura - Luisa Miller

2025 - 2025

Chorus - Nabucco

2023 - 2023

Cleone - Ermione

2023 - 2023

Chorus - Roberto Devereux

2022 - 2022

Chorus - Lakmé

2022 - 2022

Mahler's 4th Symphony - Soprano Soloist

2025 - 2025
Washington, D.C.

Chorus - Aida

2025 - 2025

Chorus - Macbeth

2024 - 2024

Chorus - Turandot

2024 - 2024

Director - Svadba

2024 - 2024
Nashville, TN

Director - Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena

2023 - 2023

Orpah - Where You Go

2023 - 2023

Director - La bohème

2022 - 2022

Sandrina - La finta giardiniera

2021 - 2021

Mrs. Coyle - Owen Wingrave

2021 - 2021

Vixen (cover) - The Cunning Little Vixen

2020 - 2020

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