Olivia Haramis

Canadian soprano Olivia Haramis began her musical training in Cornwall, Ontario, where she studied voice, violin, and piano. She holds an Honours, Bachelor of Music and a Diploma in Opera from Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studied with Leslie Fagan and James McLean. She is currently a Master of Music candidate at McGill University, where she studies with Tracy Smith Bessette. Recent roles and performances include Jesse Maker’s Devolving Songs (world premiere), Handel’s Messiah, Évangéline from the chamber opera Évangéline (Regnier, world premiere), Mozart’s Regina coeli, K. 108, Poulenc’s Gloria, Anne 1 and Anne 2 from Singing Only Softly (Livingston/Pearce/Viau), Dorothy Parker from Etiquette (Pearce/Terauds), Baby Doe from The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore), Ellen Orford from Peter Grimes (Britten), Female Chorus from The Rape of Lucretia (Britten), Blanche de la Force from Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc), Ophélie from Hamlet (Thomas), and Christina Campbell in the world premiere of Canadian composer Stephanie Martin’s The Llandovery Castle. She was also a featured guest for several Classiqu’Arts SD&G festivals, where she performed excerpts from Rodgers’ The Sound of Music, Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, and Delibes’ Flower Duet under the baton of Marc David. Olivia is a recipient of many awards, including an RCM National Gold Medal, a McCall MacBain Regional Award, and in 2021, she was selected by Wilfrid Laurier University as a candidate for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the WLU Alumni Choir Voice Performance Scholarship at Laurier, where she served in 2021-2022 as External President of the Faculty of Music Students’ Association. In her spare time, Olivia teaches lessons in voice, violin, piano, and music theory/history to students of all ages. She looks forward to upcoming performances as Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème, in cities across Slovenia and Italy, this summer.