Olivia Vermeulen

inexhaustible sweetness” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Dutch mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen is

internationally celebrated for her versatility and artistic curiosity, with a repertoire spanning baroque to

contemporary works.

Her acclaimed debut album Dirty minds (2020) together with pianist Jan Philip Schulze was hailed with

the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the Edison Klassiek Prize and toured to leading venues

including the Oxford International Song Festival, deSingel Antwerp, Brucknerhaus Linz, Hugo Wolf

Akademie Stuttgart, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Their second album, Hello Darkness was

released in 2022 and featured among Volkskrant’s top 40 albums of the year (cross-genre).

On the concert stage, Olivia enjoys a particularly close collaboration with the Budapest Festival Orchestra

under Iván Fischer and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under René Jacobs. To date she has collaborated

with the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the

Concertgebouw Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg, under such names as Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras

Casado, Philippe Herreweghe, Frans Brüggen, Reinhard Goebel, Marek Janowski, Tomáš Netopil, Masaaki

and Masato Suzuki, and Kent Nagano. She has appeared at the Bregenz Festival, Salzburg Festival,

Holland Festival, Munich Opera Festival, Rheingau Music Festival, Handel Festival in Halle, while the 2025-

26 season marks key concert debuts at the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, the Vienna Musikverein and the

Tonhalle Zürich, among others.

Her operatic career includes roles such as Donna Elvira (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) and Dorabella (Così

fan tutte) both with Jacobs and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra on tour, as well as house debuts at the

Opéra national de Paris and at the Opernhaus Zürich as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro). She has appeared

regularly in recent years at the Berlin State Opera. Equally at home in contemporary repertoire, Olivia

has created roles by Thomas Larcher (Bregenz Festival), John Adams (Concertgebouw Amsterdam), and

Philippe Manoury (Opéra Comique in Paris).