About

BIO

Gretchen Pille is quickly garnering attention for her the energetic presence and charm she brings to each project.. Recent roles and projects include Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Plaintiff in Trial by Jury, Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, and zFestival, a virtual festival for the creation of new music. Current projects include City Lyric Opera's digital presentation of Threepenny Opera, and Frank Nawrot’s Don Henry, a rock opera to be released in winter 2020.

In April 2018 Ms. Pille made her Kennedy Center debut premiering Kevin Walczyks’s Symphony No. 5: Freedom from Fear: Images from the Shoreline. The album for this work was released by Naxos in April 2020, and can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, and Naxos.

Ms. Pille has performed with several opera companies including Opera Omaha, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, OPERA Iowa, Heartland Opera Theatre, and Opera Naples. Ms. Pille is an alumna of the Opera Naples Resident Artist Program, Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Artist Program, Chautauqua Institution Voice Program, The University of Kansas, and The University of Nebraska – Lincoln.