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Erin Fasone is a versatile soprano who has performed opera, music theatre, and oratorio performances to great success across the United States. Her performance as Nellie Forbush in Diamond Head Theatre’s acclaimed production of South Pacific earned her a Po’okela Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical.
For the upcoming 2026-2027 season, Erin will sing as the Guest Soloist with the Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra for their Labor Day Concert, "Sunrise, Sunset- Music Through the Day," under the baton of Michael Chertock. She will present a Gala for the Mason Symphony Orchestra, "A Broadway Soirée," along with her longtime collaborators Javier Ortiz, Bass-Baritone and Melissa Toedtman, Piano. Erin then returns to Opera Columbus to sing Edith in Pirates! The Penzance Musical. She will also understudy Mabel in this new adaptation of a beloved G&S favorite. She also continues her tour of Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate and appears as a chorus member with the Arcadia Symphony for a celebration of America's 250th at Carnegie Hall.
In the 2025-2026 season, Erin appears as the Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Basilica Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains in Cincinnati, Liesgen in Bach’s Coffee Cantata BWV 211 with Cantiamo Columbus, Doorkeeper in Charpentier’s Le Reniement de Saint Pierre with Ars Audax (a new early music ensemble!), and Soprano Soloist in Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri with Ensemble con Fuoco. Ensemble credits this year include The Old Man and the Sea with Beth Morrison Projects/Opera Columbus, Carmen with Dayton Opera Chorus, La Traviata with Opera Columbus, and appearances with Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, and Herie et Hodie early music ensemble.
In the 2024-2025 season, Erin makes her debut with The Bach Society of Dayton as the Soprano Soloist in the Fauré Requiem and with Collegium Cincinnati as the Soprano Soloist in the Vivaldi Gloria. She also debuts with the Mason Symphony Orchestra as a featured soloist in their winter concert, singing Juliette’s Waltz. Erin appears as the Soprano Soloist in Bach’s BWV Cantata 156 and Zelenka’s Miserere at Calvary Episcopal in Cincinnati. She will present Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate motet for soprano/piano across churches in Southern Ohio. Other performances include an American Art Song recital with the Art Song Preservation Society of NY, a return to the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra for a reprise of the Pops Concert Merry Christmas Darling, and choral appearances with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, The Bach Ensemble at St. Thomas, Dayton Opera's production of Aida, and The Basilica Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains (where she was recently heard as Soprano Soloist in selections from Haydn’s Creation).
Favorite operetta performances include the title role in Victor Herbert’s Mademoiselle Modiste with The Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Adele in Die Fledermaus with members of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in Kaneohe, HI, Natalie Zeta in The Merry Widow with Loudoun Lyric Opera, Betty in The Threepenny Opera with The Princeton Festival, Gretel/Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel with Opera San José’s outreach department, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific with Diamond Head Theatre, and The Plaintiff in Trial by Jury with The Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Erin was a studio artist with Hawaii Opera Theatre for three years where she sang educational outreach roles to include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, and Pamina in The Magic Flute. Mainstage Hawaii Opera Theatre credits include Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, Handmaiden (cv) in Turandot, and Yum-Yum (cv) in The Mikado. Other roles include Musetta in La Bohème with Taconic Opera New York Opera Conservatory, Erste Dame/Pamina (cv) in Die Zauberflöte with Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Governess in scenes from Turn of the Screw with Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.
Favorite solo oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Fauré’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G, Clausen’s Creation, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Saint-Sean’s’ Christmas Oratorio.
Erin is passionate about collaboration with composers and has sung leading roles in three world premiere operas in Ithaca, NY and Princeton, NJ with composers such as Julia Adolphe, Theo Popov, and Stuart Duncan. (Her performance as Evelyn Hutchinson in the original opera The Silk City with Garden State Opera was canceled in 2020 due to Covid-19).
Erin holds Voice Performance degrees from Westminster Choir College (MMus) and Ithaca College (BMus).
For the upcoming 2026-2027 season, Erin will sing as the Guest Soloist with the Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony Orchestra for their Labor Day Concert, "Sunrise, Sunset- Music Through the Day," under the baton of Michael Chertock. She will present a Gala for the Mason Symphony Orchestra, "A Broadway Soirée," along with her longtime collaborators Javier Ortiz, Bass-Baritone and Melissa Toedtman, Piano. Erin then returns to Opera Columbus to sing Edith in Pirates! The Penzance Musical. She will also understudy Mabel in this new adaptation of a beloved G&S favorite. She also continues her tour of Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate and appears as a chorus member with the Arcadia Symphony for a celebration of America's 250th at Carnegie Hall.
In the 2025-2026 season, Erin appears as the Soprano Soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Basilica Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains in Cincinnati, Liesgen in Bach’s Coffee Cantata BWV 211 with Cantiamo Columbus, Doorkeeper in Charpentier’s Le Reniement de Saint Pierre with Ars Audax (a new early music ensemble!), and Soprano Soloist in Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri with Ensemble con Fuoco. Ensemble credits this year include The Old Man and the Sea with Beth Morrison Projects/Opera Columbus, Carmen with Dayton Opera Chorus, La Traviata with Opera Columbus, and appearances with Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Fusion Ensemble, and Herie et Hodie early music ensemble.
In the 2024-2025 season, Erin makes her debut with The Bach Society of Dayton as the Soprano Soloist in the Fauré Requiem and with Collegium Cincinnati as the Soprano Soloist in the Vivaldi Gloria. She also debuts with the Mason Symphony Orchestra as a featured soloist in their winter concert, singing Juliette’s Waltz. Erin appears as the Soprano Soloist in Bach’s BWV Cantata 156 and Zelenka’s Miserere at Calvary Episcopal in Cincinnati. She will present Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate motet for soprano/piano across churches in Southern Ohio. Other performances include an American Art Song recital with the Art Song Preservation Society of NY, a return to the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra for a reprise of the Pops Concert Merry Christmas Darling, and choral appearances with Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, The Bach Ensemble at St. Thomas, Dayton Opera's production of Aida, and The Basilica Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains (where she was recently heard as Soprano Soloist in selections from Haydn’s Creation).
Favorite operetta performances include the title role in Victor Herbert’s Mademoiselle Modiste with The Victorian Lyric Opera Company, Adele in Die Fledermaus with members of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in Kaneohe, HI, Natalie Zeta in The Merry Widow with Loudoun Lyric Opera, Betty in The Threepenny Opera with The Princeton Festival, Gretel/Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel with Opera San José’s outreach department, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific with Diamond Head Theatre, and The Plaintiff in Trial by Jury with The Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. Erin was a studio artist with Hawaii Opera Theatre for three years where she sang educational outreach roles to include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, and Pamina in The Magic Flute. Mainstage Hawaii Opera Theatre credits include Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, Handmaiden (cv) in Turandot, and Yum-Yum (cv) in The Mikado. Other roles include Musetta in La Bohème with Taconic Opera New York Opera Conservatory, Erste Dame/Pamina (cv) in Die Zauberflöte with Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and Governess in scenes from Turn of the Screw with Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.
Favorite solo oratorio credits include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Fauré’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G, Clausen’s Creation, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Bach’s Coffee Cantata, and Saint-Sean’s’ Christmas Oratorio.
Erin is passionate about collaboration with composers and has sung leading roles in three world premiere operas in Ithaca, NY and Princeton, NJ with composers such as Julia Adolphe, Theo Popov, and Stuart Duncan. (Her performance as Evelyn Hutchinson in the original opera The Silk City with Garden State Opera was canceled in 2020 due to Covid-19).
Erin holds Voice Performance degrees from Westminster Choir College (MMus) and Ithaca College (BMus).