Erica Miller, soprano, just made her debut with the
Deutsche Oper Berlin singing Königin der Nacht in Die
Zauberflöte. As a recipient of the Curt Engelhorn
Scholarship from The Opera Foundation, Inc., she will
continue to spend the 2008-2009 season at Deutsche Oper,
singing 10 roles and covering four others. Ms. Miller has
attended the young artist programs of Chautauqua Opera, Des
Moines Metro Opera, Opera North, and the Green Mountain
Opera Festival.
Past opera roles have included the Maid in Thomas
Adès’s 1995 opera, Powder Her Face, which
she performed with the composer conducting, Königin der
Nacht, Poppea (Agrippina), Elettra
(Idomeneo), Adele, Despina, Madame Silberklang,
Jennie Parsons (Down in the Valley), Papagena,
Annina (La Traviata) and Barbarina with the USC
Thornton Opera, the Bay View Opera, the Westminster Opera
Theatre, Opera North, and the Green Mountain Opera
Festival.
Ms. Miller has been very successful in competitions on both
the East and West Coasts. Just before winning the Curt
Engelhorn Scholarship, she was named the only female
finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2008
Greenfield Competition. In her five and a half years spent
in Los Angeles, Ms. Miller was a winner in 10 competitions,
the most notable of which was being named a finalist in the
Western Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions in 2006.
Ms. Miller completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree last
December at the University of Southern California, where
she also received her Master of Music degree in 2004. Her
major was Voice Performance, with minor fields in 20th
Century Music Theory Analysis, Opera Directing, and Vocal
Jazz Studies. At USC, she was a student of Cynthia Munzer,
and worked extensively with director Ken Cazan and
conductor Brent McMunn. Her Bachelor of Music degree is
from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. Ms. Miller
is originally from Mount Holly, NJ, and is proud to call
herself a Jersey girl.