Alma Neuhaus
Mezzo-Soprano
Praised for a voice “that is as velvety as it is voluminous” (Salzburger Nachrichten) American Mezzo-Soprano Alma Neuhaus is a current member of the soloist ensemble at the Wiener Staatsoper
Alma Neuhaus | Cherubino | Le nozze di figaro | 2024
Alma Neuhaus | Ah, perdona al primo affetto | La Clemenza di Tito | Vienna Staatsoper 2025
Alma Neuhaus | Must the winter come so soon? | Vanessa | S. Barber
In the current season at the Wienner Staatsoper she will sing Thibault Don Carlos, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Zwiete Dame Die Zauberflöte, Mercédès Carmen and a give a recital in the Mahler-Saal.
Her previous highlights for the Wiener Staatsoper include Hansel Hansel und Gretel, Muse/Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Meg Page Falstaff, Wellgunde Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, Waltraute and Siegrune Die Walküre, Page Salome, Dorabella Cosi fan tuttte, Krista Vec Makropulos, Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte, Javotte Manon, Mercédès Carmen, Flora La traviata, Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia für Kinder, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Tisbe La Cenerentola, Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly, Die Schleppträgerin Elektra, and Amore Il ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with leading conductors such as Philippe Jordan, Franz Welser-Möst, Bertraud de Billy, Daniela Candillari, Marco Armilliato, Domingo Hindoyn, Emmanuel Villaume, Daniel Barenboim, William Christie, Alexander Soddy, Stefano Montanari, Pablo Heras-Casado, Sebastian Weigle, Pier Giorgio Morandi, and Louis Langrée.
Further engagements include Zerlina Don Giovanni (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées); Page Salome (Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra); Filide Aminta e Filide (Les Arts Florissants); Seconda Cercatrice Suor Angelica and a Blümenmädchen Parsifal (Salzburger Festspiele/Wiener Philharmoniker); Jenny Reefer The Mother of Us All (New York Philharmonic Orchestra); Debussy’s Nocturnes (New York Philharmonic Orchestra/David Geffen Hall); SWR Junge Opernstars Concerts (Deutsche Radio Philharmonie); Arcane Teseo (Juilliard School of Music Opera); Alto soloist in JS Bach’s In allen meinen Taten and Magnificat in D, and Kuhnau’s Magnificat in C (Bach Roots Festival); Mussorgsky’s The Nursery (Julliard School of Music); and performed in recital at Alice Tully Hall and Damrosch Park as part of the Lincoln Center Restart Stages, Bethlehem Music Series in Minnesota and at the Gustav Mahler Saal, Wien.
Alma obtained her Bachelor of Music and Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College, Minnesota, and is an alumna of the Wiener Staatsoper Opernstudio, the Julliard School of Music, Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Programme and the Music Academy of the West.