Allegra De Vita
Mezzo Soprano
Mezzo Soprano
"Allegra De Vita is ideally cast as his sister Maddalena, a torrid presence with an opulent, cleanly delivered mezzo" - Opera News
Meet Allegra
“Allegra De Vita offered an impeccable performance. Her complex mezzo, with its fine-spun vibrato, was lovely in itself, but it also consistently conveyed human utterance: when De Vita sang, you could hear Arsemenes speak. She was especially adept in her precisely etched trills and ornaments, each conveying expressive intent while giving shape to the musical line as a whole. .”
- Opera News
January 2023
Meg Page
Falstaff
Maryland Lyric Opera
October 2022
Isabella
L'italiana in Algeri
Tulsa Opera
A Versatile Performer with years of experience
Versatility
Repertoire
Allegra is comfortable in a vast array of repertories and styles.
- Baroque
- Mozart
- Rossini
- Bel Canto
- Verdi
- Strauss
- Musical Theater
- New Works
- Experimental
- Atonal
Tradition
Historic
Institutions
Allegra is a graduate of the Washington National Opera's Cafritz Young Artist Program, AVA, and Rice University.
Bio
Allegra De Vita, hailed by Opera News as a “complex mezzo, [whose] fine-spun vibrato, was lovely in itself, but it also consistently conveyed human utterance.” She was recently seen as "Isabella" in L'italiana in Algeri with Tulsa Opera and as "Meg Page" in Falstaff with The Maryland Lyric Opera.
She has also performed "Maddalena" in Rigoletto with Tulsa Opera, as "Angelina" in La Cenerentola at Dayton Opera, "The Page" in Salome at The Spoleto Festival, "Siebel" in Faust at Washington National Opera, the title role in Carmen with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, "Tancredi" in Erminia with Opera Lafayette, "Agrippina" in Fall of Lehman Brothers with Ballet-Opera-Pantomime in Montreal, "Olga" in Eugene Onegin with Syracuse Opera, and sang "Isaura" while understudying "Tancredi" in Tancredi with Opera Philadelphia. Ms. De Vita spent three summers at the Glimmerglass Festival performing the roles of "Pippo" in La Gazza Ladra, "Fulvio" in Cato in Utica, and "Arsamenes" in Xerxes.
As a 2018 graduate from the Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program, Ms. De Vita was seen as "Rosina" in The Barber of Seville (Emerging Artist Performance), "Tebaldo" in Don Carlo, "Ruggiero" in Alcina (Emerging Artist Performance), the title role in The Dictator’s Wife, "Cherubino" in Le Nozze di Figaro (Emerging Artist Performance), and "Kate Pinkerton" in Madame Butterfly.
Ms. De Vita was a 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finalist and can be heard on the Grammy Award winning CD of Wozzeck conducted by Hans Graf with the Houston Symphony. She was a resident artist at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, PA, where she performed the roles of "Charlotte" in Werther and "Zerlina" in Don Giovanni. Ms. De Vita holds a master’s degree in voice from Rice studying with Dr. Stephen King, and a BA Magna cum Laude in biology with a neuroscience concentration from Sacred Heart University.
Latest
Recognitions
AWARDS
Allegra's excellence in her field has been recognized many times.
2nd Place
Jensen Competition
2016
Grand Finalist
The Metropolitan Opera Competition
2015