Described by Opera News as “regal bearing, and sparkling”, soprano Caroline Dunigan is establishing herself as a performer of wide artistic range and musical versatility.

This Fall, Caroline is most excited to be returning to Concerts in the Village for its fourteenth season inaugural concert, making her role debut as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio.

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-Waltzes, op.52, alongside pianist Peter Serkin at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York City. Additionally, Caroline has appeared as 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 Orchestra 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.

She received her master of music from the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, led by soprano Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama, and her bachelor of music from the Manhattan School of Music.