Hailing from Hood River Oregon, Olivia recently received her Masters of Music from Louisiana State University. She has had the privilege of performing at LSU’s Turner-Fischer Center for Opera where she’s portrayed Le Prince Charmant in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Desirée Armfeldt in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, Ty/Cassandra in the collegiate premier of Anthony K. Brandt’s Kassandra, and Martirio in La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Griffin Candey and Carisa Svich. Olivia holds a Bachelor of Music with an Outside Field in Musical Theatre (B.S.O.F) from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. For Indiana University Opera Theatre, Olivia was seen as Little Buttercup in Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. For Indiana University, she appeared as Mrs. Wade in Bernstein' s Wonderful Town, and premiered the new musical Sticks and Stones based on the music of Neko Case for IU Summer Theatre. She has been fortunate to participate in two international young artist programs, Summer Music in Tuscany and the Vienna Summer Music Festival. For the Utah Valley Opera Fest, Olivia portrayed Amastre in Serse by G.F. Handel, and performed scenes from Carmen in “Opera Goes to the Movies''. Olivia was most recently seen rejoining Reimagining Opera for Kids to perform as the Mother in Nicholas Hersh’s arrangement of Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. 

In addition to performing on stage, Olivia is passionate about promoting greater accessibility to opera and bringing the genre to new audiences. She created and moderated a panel at South by Southwest 2022 in Austin Texas featuring Soprano Lisette Oropesa, conductor Timothy Meyers, and Annie Burridge, General Director/CEO of Austin Opera. The panel discussed the lessons learned by our industry during the pandemic, and how to capitalize on the new technologies and conversations generated by this crisis to foster a more accessible and equitable industry for future generations of singers and fans. Olivia Newcomb is a current student of Jane Dutton and is based in Portland, Oregon.