About

Hailed by Opera News for her “sweet soubrette” and “tender yet elegant” vocal style, New York based Soprano Zoe Allen is an avid interpreter of classical and contemporary music.

Recent performances include Handel’s Messiah (Soprano soloist) with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi and Caroline Shaw at Death of Classical, and as soprano soloist in Jeff Beal’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at Carnegie Hall with Fourth Wall Ensemble. Other notable performances include Candide with The Knights at Tanglewood and the Ravinia Festival, Virginia Opera’s Street Scene, SVADBA at the Bard Fisher Center, Le Feu/Princesse/Rossignol in The Aspen Music Festival’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, and as Königin der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte) in concert with the Albany Symphony. Additionally, She has appeared as a soloist with the Aspen Chamber Symphony, TON Orchestra, The Knights Orchestra, and Richmond Symphony. In addition to her work as a classical singer, Allen studied theatre at Barnard College and appears as the title role in film director Mary Lambert’s Pearl, which premiered at the 2011 Sitges Film Festival. She also originated the role of Michelle in Intruder-The Musical at the 2018 New York Theatre Festival. She holds an award from the Metropolitan National Council (Western Region Semi-Finalist) and the Kenneth Janes Prize in Theatre Studies from Barnard College.

She has a M.M. from Syracuse University (2014) where she studied with Dr. Kathleen Roland- Silverstein, and an M.M. from Bard Conservatory (2016) where she worked with Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama. She is a member of New York City based Fourth Wall Ensemble and St. Bartholomew’s Choir, and performs regularly as a soloist and in ensembles throughout New York City.