KRISTIN BILODEAU SOPRANO
BIOGRAPHY
Coined as a “clear, well-produced Soprano” (San Diego Story), and praised for her “beautiful singing” (The Theatre Times), American Soprano Kristin Bilodeau brings clarity and nuance to the stage. The 2025 season kicks off with Kristin appointed as an Austin Opera Resident Star for a second season. Her '25 residency begins with performing "The Nominee's Wife" and covering "Eleanor Iselin" in the Long Center production of Kevin Puts' The Manchurian Candidate. Kristin represents AO at various community and donor events including the acclaimed "Concerts at the Consulate" collaboration between AO and the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin designed to spotlight Latinx composers and artists and celebrate Hispanic culture. Kristin concludes her residency with the "Resident Stars Showcase": a thrilling concert full of arias, duets, and ensembles coached with AO's Music Director, Maestro Timothy Myers. Kristin has found great joy cultivating new opera works and has continued to do so in the'25 season. Kristin joined the roster of LOLA, Austin where she portrayed the, "Trust Fund Sister" in a workshop of Peter Stopschinski's Wildman in the Palace, based off the award winning play by Rude Mechs. Kristin premiered the role of "Pea Blossom" in Keith Allegretti and Amy Herman's The Butterfly, with LOLA partnering with Tetractys for their 3rd annual "Here Be Monsters" indie classical music festival.
In the 2024 season, Kristin joined Austin Opera's inaugural cohort of Resident Stars. During her residency, Kristin covered the role of "Micaëla" (Carmen) , joined the ensembles in Carmen and Pagliacci, and concluded the season with their first annual "Resident Stars Showcase". Kristin returned to Gilbert and Sullivan Austin to portray "Elsie Maynard" in The Yeoman of the Guard for which she was nominated for an Austin Theatre Critics Award for Best Actress in a musical. Joining the roster at One Ounce Opera, Kristin performed in their 6th annual Fresh Squeezed Championing works by living composers, this program featured 4 world premiering micro-operas in which Kristin performed the leading role in the award winning micro opera An Artist's Regrets. Kristin joyfully serves as the Soprano Choral Scholar at University Baptist Church.
Making home in Boston, Massachusetts for a better part of a decade, Kristin was frequently seen on stages across the city. Regional companies include: MassOpera (formerly MetroWest Opera), Odyssey Opera, Opera Del West, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), The Gena Branscombe Project, Masterworks Chorale, One, Boston Land Marks Orchestra and Grammy Award winning ensemble Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). Kristin has travelled across the nation and internationally with Young Artist Programs including Miami Music Festival, Opera NEO, and Oberlin in Italy.
Making a rise in the competition scene, Kristin was named a 2020 Grand Finalist in the Piccola Opera NH Opera Idol Competition and a 2019 Regional Finalist in the Talents of the World International Voice Competition.
Kristin’s most notable roles have included Micaëla (Carmen), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus), Governess (Turn of the Screw), Monica (The Medium) , First Lady (The Magic Flute), Elsie Maynard (The Yeoman of the Guard), and Kitty Hart (Dead Man Walking).
Kristin received her Master’s of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music, where she had the privilege of studying under the tutelage of world renowned soprano Jane Eaglen at both institutions.
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Austin Opera Resident Star Showcase
June 10th, 2025 (7:00 PM)
The annual Resident Stars Showcase highlights the gifted Austin-based artists from this year's season in an intimate setting. Join us as we celebrate their vocal talents with arias, duets, and ensembles.
KMFA Studios
Concerts at the Consulate
June 5th, 2025 (6:00 PM)
Bass-baritone Brandon Morales and Austin Opera Resident Star Soprano Kristin Bilodeau will perform operatic favorites and Spanish songs by Latinx composers, accompanied by pianist Maimy Fong. Consulate General of Mexico in Austin
The Butterfly
Wildman in the Palace
The Manchurian Candidate
The Nominee's Wife
Eleanor (cover)
November 9, 2024 (7:30pm)
November 10, 2024 (2:00pm)
Austin Opera
Gallery
PRESS
Elsie Maynard, Yeoman of the Guard
"Kristin Bilodeau as Elsie Maynard, initially a dupe of plotters but ultimately triumphant, was one of three particularly powerful sopranos... fully up to opera standard. Capable of singing laughingly or through tears... hitting the back seats with clarity as well as power." CTX Live Theatre
Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus
"[Bilodeau] was perfectly able to capture every aspect and emotion of Rosalinda both with her beautiful singing and her speaking. Further for the character's entire journey, we remained on her side even as Rosalinda displayed some of her flaws." The Theatre Times
Laurentia, The Beautiful Bridegroom
"Singing throughout the piece was exceptional... Kristin [Bilodeau] and Laura Intravia played off of one another well as her two daughters, both in their purposefully stilted-looked choreography and their vocal shine" The Theatre Times
Kitty Hart, Dead Man Walking
"As the four parents of the murdered teenagers, Robert Turnage, Samantha Lax, Kristin [Bilodeau], and Tyler Koch expressed grief for their children and anger at Sister Helen... yet never descended into stock characters." South Florida Classical Review
Micaela, Carmen
"Kristin [Bilodeau] is a clear, well-produced soprano who had the dramatic sense to avoid the self-pity with which some sopranos invest in Don José's jilted girlfriend." San Diego Story
