Erin Ridge

Erin Ridge is a lyric soprano and opera director currently based in Washington, D.C. This season, she has performed a wide variety of repertoire with companies including Opera Baltimore as an outreach artist, Baltimore Musicales as a regular recitalist, Annapolis Opera as Lucinda in their production of Into the Woods, Washington Concert Opera as a regular chorus member, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival as an Opera Fellow. Erin’s most recent performance highlights include Mother in Amahl & the Night Visitors (Rez Church DC), Soloist in Crumb’s Madrigals: Book I (Sewanee Summer Music Festival), Soloist in Bach’s Coffee Cantata (Lancaster Symphony Orchestra), Mrs. Coyle in Britten’s Owen Wingrave (National Orchestral Institute), Sandrina in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (Maryland Opera Studio), and the Vixen cover in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Maryland Opera Studio). As an avid storyteller, Erin has found particular purpose in dramatically coaching singers through character embodiment and narrative exploration. This passion has led her to directing and she has honed this skill as both the Assistant Director for Die Zauberflöte (Maryland Opera Studio, 2021), La bohème (Annapolis Opera, 2022), Ceiling/Sky (InSeries Opera, 2023), and as the Director for La bohème (Maryland Opera Studio, 2022). Erin holds degrees from Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland, where she earned her B.M. in Voice Performance in 2015 and M.M. in Opera Performance in 2021.