Elizabeth Reiter
Elizabeth Reiter is an American operatic soprano who has been based at the Oper Frankfurt from 2013, where she covered a broad repertoire from Armida in Handel's "Rinaldo" to the double role Renee/Alice in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's "Lost Highway". She performed at international opera houses and festivals, such as singing Zerlina in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Tanglewood, conducted by James Levine. Career. Reiter was born in Chicago where she was a member in the Lyric Opera's children's choir. She sang as a child in over 100 productions, for example  in Puccini's "La Bohème" and "Tosca", Ponchielli's "La Gioconda", Boito's "Mefistofele", Bizet's "Carmen", Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades", Verdi's "Otello" and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel at the Lyric Opera. At the age of 16, Reiter made her professional debut as Young Maria Celeste in the world premiere of Glass's "Galileo Galilei" (Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and London’s Barbican Center). She studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music where she performed several roles in the opera program. She took part in the Metropolitan  Opera National Council Auditions. Reiter joined the Oper Frankfurt in the 2013/14 season, where she appeared in roles including Armida in Handel's "Rinaldo", Mozart's Susanna in "Le nozze di Figaro" and Pamina in "Die Zauberflöte", Gretel in Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel", Valencienne in Lehàr's "Die lustige Witwe", Anne Trulove in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress", Renee / Alice in Neuwirth's "Lost Highway", and the title role in Janáček's "Das schlaue Füchslein". In 2018, she appeared in the double role Renee/Alice in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's "Lost Highway". A reviewer of  the Los Angeles Times noted: In September 2021, she appeared as Melissa in Handel's "Amadigi", conducted by Roland Böer, and alongside Brennan Hall in the title role, Kateryna Kasper and Beth Taylor. A reviewer noted her sharp coloraturas and dramatic outbursts, portraying the harsh character, and intense acting up to her death scene. She appeared as a guest at Opera Memphis and the Opera Philadelphia among others. She performed as Zerlina in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the Tanglewood Music Center, conducted by James Levine, and as The Dragonfly in Ravel's "L'enfant et les sortilèges" at the Castleton  Festival, conducted by Lorin Maazel. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she gave house concerts from her home.