Performance Year: 2026
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 soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony and Virginia Symphony Orchestras 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, Street Scene with Virginia Opera, SVADBA at the Bard Fisher Center, Le Feu/Princesse/Rossignol in L’enfant et les sortilèges at the Aspen Music Festival, and as Queen of the Night in a concert production of Die Zauberflöte with the Albany Symphony. Furthermore, 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 in the title role in the film Pearl, directed by Mary Lambert, 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 won the Kenneth Janes Prize in Theatre Studies from Barnard College and was a Western Region Semi-Finalist in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions.
Allen holds an M.M. from Syracuse University (2014) where she studied with Dr. Kathleen Roland-Silverstein and a second M.M. from Bard Conservatory (2016) where she worked with Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama. She is a member of NYC-based Fourth Wall Ensemble and St. Bartholomew’s Choir and performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble singer throughout New York City.
