Alissa Anderson
Contralto Alissa Anderson begins the 2022-23 season making her debut at Hawaii Opera Theatre as Mrs. Medlock in The Secret Garden and makes her role and company debut at Nashville Opera as Baba in The Medium. She also debuts at Chicago Opera Theatre as the Deaconess in Krol Roger and as Florence Pike in Albert Herring and debuts with Pacific Symphony as Maddalena in Rigoletto.
The busy 2021-22 season brought Ms. Anderson’s debut at Angers-Nantes Opera as Mother Goose in The Rake’s Progress, as well as a reprise of her Marcellina at Austin Opera, Nurse (cover) in Boris Gudunov, Dame Quickly to Falstaff with Berkshire Opera Festival, Mama in Why I Live at the Post Office with UrbanArias, Erda in Das Rheingold with Opera Santa Barbara, and alto soloist with Heartbeat Opera’s popular “Messy Messiah” concert.
In 2020, Anderson made a lauded debut as Mrs. Lovett at Royal Danish Opera. Opera News raved, “…it was left to an American Mrs. Lovett, Alissa Anderson, to show the natives how it should be done… Anderson was the best of all of them. She has a true contralto voice… her comic timing was exemplary.” The 2018-19 season included Ms. Anderson’s return to San Diego Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto, her debut with Opera San Antonio as Marthe in Faust, and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Mrs. Andrews/The Bird Woman in Mary Poppins in a return to Utah Festival Opera.
The busy 2021-22 season brought Ms. Anderson’s debut at Angers-Nantes Opera as Mother Goose in The Rake’s Progress, as well as a reprise of her Marcellina at Austin Opera, Nurse (cover) in Boris Gudunov, Dame Quickly to Falstaff with Berkshire Opera Festival, Mama in Why I Live at the Post Office with UrbanArias, Erda in Das Rheingold with Opera Santa Barbara, and alto soloist with Heartbeat Opera’s popular “Messy Messiah” concert.
In 2020, Anderson made a lauded debut as Mrs. Lovett at Royal Danish Opera. Opera News raved, “…it was left to an American Mrs. Lovett, Alissa Anderson, to show the natives how it should be done… Anderson was the best of all of them. She has a true contralto voice… her comic timing was exemplary.” The 2018-19 season included Ms. Anderson’s return to San Diego Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto, her debut with Opera San Antonio as Marthe in Faust, and Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro and Mrs. Andrews/The Bird Woman in Mary Poppins in a return to Utah Festival Opera.