Olivia Gronenthal, mezzo-soprano, is a versatile performer equally at home in opera, new music, and cross-disciplinary projects. This season, she appears as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, a co-production of OPERA San Antonio and Austin Opera, and debuted as the Super Fan in Nathan Felix’s Glory Gone at the Radius Center. She will spend the summer as the mezzo opera resident with the Lakes Area Music Festival, covering Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel).

Gronenthal has been a Studio Artist and soloist with OPERA San Antonio–Classical Music Institute and has performed a range of roles, including Mrs. Nolan (The Medium), Cendrillon (Cendrillon), and Miep Gies in the world premiere of Shulamit Ran’s Anne Frank. Other notable credits include Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), and Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), which she performed with the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria.

A passionate advocate for new music, Gronenthal was a member of the 2020 Song Genesis Project, premiering Abaude on Cold Moon, and originated Electricizer 3 in the world premiere of Elizabeth Gartman’s New Motive Power. In concert, she was a featured soloist in An Evening on Broadway with Nathan and Julie Jordan Gunn.

She holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Deanne Meek and Peter Volpe.