Caitlin Lynch studied at the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) before training with the young artist programs of Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival.
Ms. Lynch returns to the Metropolitan Opera during the 2024-2025 season for two Mozart titles: singing the First Lady in the company’s cherished family production of The Magic Flute, and covering Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. During the summer of 2025, she creates the title role of Siddhartha, a new scenic oratorio composed by Chris Theofanidis and conducted by Robert Spano, at the Aspen Music Festival. She also rejoins the Grand Teton Music Festival as the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, led by Sir Donald Runnicles.
The soprano’s 2023-2024 season began with the highly-anticipated world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera, in which Caitlin sang the leading role of Callie Van Lew. She subsequently returned to the Metropolitan Opera as both the First Lady in the company’s cherished family production of The Magic Flute and covering the role of Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours. Ms. Lynch concluded the season with The Washington Chorus, as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and with the Grand Teton Music Festival as the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Runnicles.
During the 2022-2023 season, Ms. Lynch helped celebrate the 25th anniversary of Music of Remembrance with performances of Jake Heggie’s Another Sunrise in Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the pivotal role of Clarissa Vaughan in the stage premiere of Kevin Puts/Greg Pierce’s The Hours.
A champion of contemporary composers and new music, Caitlin received international acclaim for creating the role of Eliza in Nico Muhly’s chamber opera, Dark Sisters, which premiered at the Gotham Chamber Opera in New York with subsequent performances at Opera Philadelphia. She created another role, Yadwiga, in the world premiere of Ben Moore’s Enemies, a Love Story at Palm Beach Opera, and has worked closely with composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, who engaged her to sing the world premiere of their new song cycle, Another Sunrise, commissioned by Music of Remembrance in Seattle. This led to a world-premiere performance of a commission with MoR, entitled Farewell, Auschwitz!
Caitlin Lynch made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Biancofiore in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini and returned as Cynthia in Nico Muhly’s world-premiere production of Two Boys; she has also recently sung performances of Contessa Almaviva and Pamina (The Magic Flute) with the company. Her other recent operatic engagements include First Lady in Barrie Kosky/1927’s production of Die Zauberflöte for Houston Grand Opera; Micaëla in Carmen with the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy; Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for her debut with English National Opera; Contessa Almaviva with Austin Opera, San Diego Opera and Seattle Opera; and Violetta (La traviata) and Marie Antoinette (Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles) with Chautauqua Opera.
On the concert stage, Caitlin Lynch has recently appeared with the Kansas City and Seattle Symphonies (Beethoven 9th Symphony); the Handel & Haydn Society (Mozart concert arias & Mass in C Minor); the Saint Louis Symphony (Mozart Requiem); and the Omaha Symphony (Dvořák’s Stabat Mater). She has also sung Handel’s Messiah with the Ann Arbor, Pacific and Milwaukee Symphonies; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Grant Park Music Festival; Orff’s dramatic cantata Carmina Burana with Seattle, Milwaukee, and Alabama Symphonies and appeared at the Spoleto Festival USA as the Soprano Soloist in John Adams’ El Niño.
Additional career performances include Micaëla in Carmen at Seattle Opera; Marguerite in Faust at Michigan Opera Theatre (now Detroit Opera); Violetta in La traviata with Arizona Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera; Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with the Glimmerglass Festival, Detroit Opera, and Opera Lyra Ottawa; Donna Anna (Pittsburgh Opera) and Donna Elvira (Madison Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Carolina) in Don Giovanni; Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Arizona Opera); and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (Opera Carolina, Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera).
Caitlin Lynch was awarded First Place in the Houston Grand Opera Competition, and subsequently made her mainstage debut as Hero in Beatrice et Benedict. Additional awards include a Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and 2nd place in the Palm Beach Opera Competition.
