Soprano Olivia Prendergast has been praised for her “poised” and “silvery-voiced” tone (Opera Today).  In 2024-2025, Ms. Prendergast sang as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with the DeSales University Choir and Orchestra and in the premiere of Cinema Concert Experience with Symphony21.  In the upcoming season, she will sing Nina in the premiere of Helsop’s The Bear Prince with The Berks Opera, and will make her debut with Opera Philadelphia singing Delia in Il viaggio a Reims. 

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In the 2023-2024 season, Prendergast joined three-time Grammy-winning ensemble The Crossing and the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a soloist for Gabriela Ortiz’ Revolución diamantina, covered the title role in La Calisto with the Glimmerglass Festival, and joined Opera Theatre of St. Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist, where she covered Cleopatra in Julius Caesar and went on for Marie de’Medici in Galileo Galilei. She also made her debut singing Pamina in Livermore Valley Opera’s outreach production of The Magic Flute, and sang as the soprano soloist with the Mercersburg Symphony Orchestra for their spring concert.

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Olivia recently premiered the role of Joan of Arc in Graciela Carríqui’s chamber work In Her Own Words: Joan of Arc Speaks. She has appeared as a soloist with the East Passyunk Opera Project, The Crossing, the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project, and Indiana’s HPI Concentus Ensemble.

During her two seasons with the Merola Opera Program, she performed as Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia, sang First Spirit and covered Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, and sang scenes as Carolina (Louisa Fernanda), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) and Frasquita (Carmen). 

On the competition circuit, Ms. Prendergast was a semifinalist in the Annapolis Vocal Competition in 2025. She has won second place in the Midwest Region of the Laffont Competition in 2024, after winning the St. Louis and Tennessee Districts in 2022 and 2023. She also received the Director’s Award from the James Toland Vocal Competiton.

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Prendergast holds a performance diploma and a Master of Music from Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University. Credits include Margarita Xirgu in Ainadamar, Romilda (Xerxes), Lisette (La Rondine), Lisa (Dog Days), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Flora (The Turn of the Screw), and singing as a soloist in Jaeger’s Letters Made with Gold and Reich’s Tehillim, Mozart’sVesperae solennes de confessore, Telemann’s Die Dönner-Ode, and Schütz’Weihnachts-Historie.