Artistic Director
Praised for her “beautifully ruby-throated quality” (Classical Voice North Carolina), Minnesota native Victoria Erickson is a unique and innovative soprano whose repertoire includes classic and new works. Recent roles include Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Off-Brand Opera) and Juliette in the world premiere of The Eleanors (Savannah VOICE Festival), both in January 2025. Upcoming roles in the 2025 season include Quinn in Alice Tierney (Opera Reading Project), Holly in Green Thumbed (Opera Athena/Really Spicy Opera, World Premiere), and Nella in Gianni Schicchi, (Hometown Opera), adding to her varied career as both a champion of new works and interpreter of standard repertoire.
For creating new and engaging works, Erickson received a Respekt und Wertschätzung Grant from the DAAD-Stiftung (German Academic Exchange) to perform, teach, and research as a Visiting Fellow with Professor Elmar Lampson at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, Germany from October 2023 to March 2024. She has also performed and consulted as an Artist In Residence with Really Spicy Opera and Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich as a co-founder of Opera Athena. In April 2024, she premiered the title role in The Miller’s Daughter, a radical expansion of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with music by award-winning composer Jodi Goble in conjunction with the Iowa Arts Council. Erickson and Goble presented and premiered The Miller’s Daughter at the National Opera Association National Conference in January 2025. The piece will be performed by universities such as Penn State and University of Nebraska-Omaha. Through a generous individual artist grant, The Miller’s Daughter will have its Minnesota premiere at St. Olaf College in conjunction with Opera Athena in September 2025.
