Adelaide Boedecker

Biography

Soprano Adelaide Boedecker has been described as “emotionally transparent and beguiling of tone” (The San Francisco Chronicle). This season, she returns to Atlanta Symphony for their Messiah and Bach’s Magnificat in December of 2024 after making her debut with the orchestra as the soprano soloist in Messiah this past year. Ms. Boedecker recently returned to the Metropolitan Opera covering the role of Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.  Past assignments at the Metropolitan Opera include covering the role of Tebaldo in Don Carlo, and she first joined the roster of the company covering Thibault in Don Carlos.

Ms. Boedecker most recently appeared as Pamina in The Magic Flute with Pittsburgh Opera, a role she has performed with Opera Las Vegas (Covid19) and Sarasota Opera.  Other operatic heroines include Norina in Don Pasquale at Opera Las Vegas and Adina in L’elisir d’amore with Sarasota Opera, Clorinda in La Cenerentola with Opera Las Vegas, Syracuse Opera and El Paso Opera, and both Marie in La fille du régiment and Frasquita in Carmen with Pittsburgh Opera, roles she also covered at Santa Fe Opera and Atlanta Opera, respectively.  She covered the title role in Donizetti’s Rita with Sarasota Opera as well as Anna in Nabucco, and also showcased her Despina in Così fan tutte with Merola Opera after first covering the role with Pittsburgh Opera. She made her role debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with James Conlon and James Darrah at Music Academy of the West.

Ms. Boedecker recently returned to Santa Fe Opera performing the role of Meridian in Joe Illick and Andrea Walter’s UnShakeable.  Other credits include Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers with Florida Grand Opera, the roles of Alice B. Toklas in 27, Beth in Little Women, and Mabrouka in Sumeida’s Song with Pittsburgh Opera, Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire with Merola Opera, Micaëla in The Tragedy of Carmen with Opera Birmingham, and Yum-Yum in The Mikado with Performance Santa Fe.

On the concert stage, Ms. Boedecker has been featured in concert with the Choral Artists of Sarasota, as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor with Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Capriccio Columbus, and the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Naples Philharmonic. She also sang Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate at a New Year’s Eve Gala at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, and performed with Opera Columbus for their Opera Swings Jazz concerts.

During her two years as an apprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera, she performed the roles of Ida in Die Fledermaus, Tessa in Trinity, and Sarah in Avastar, and covered Marie in La fille du régiment, Serpetta in La finta giardiniera, Lila/Laura in Cold Mountain, and Chrisann in Santa Fe’s world premiere of (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.

Competition highlights include winning the Santa Fe Opera Anna Case MacKay Award, the National Opera Association competition, scholarship division, and winning second place in the American Prize competition for professional singers.

Ms. Boedecker debuted professionally at age 17 as Barbarina with Sarasota Opera. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from University of Florida, where she graduated summa cum laude, and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music.