Courtney Wallace, Soprano

Courtney Wallace is an American soprano from Dayton, Ohio. She currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri.
She holds a Bachelor of Music from Bowling Green State University (2013), a Professional Studies Certificate from Cleveland Institute of Music (2015), and an Artist’s Certificate from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (2017). Notable teachers include Ellen Scholl (2009-2013), Vinson Cole (2013-2017), and current teacher, Carol Chatfield.

Her latest performances were at the Utah Vocal Arts Academy Summer Opera Festival (2019). There she was a Slave in Die Zauberflöte, part of the Opera Scenes performances as Alice from Falstaff in Act I, Scene 2, and a featured performer in the Lyric Voices Showcase.

She has worked with Dayton Opera, performing with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Chorus and the Dayton Opera Chorus to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (2018) and Verdi’s Requiem (2017). She also was part of the Dayton Opera Chorus for their production of Turandot (2017). Courtney performed as part of the Link Up children’s series as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony for Link Up: The Orchestra Rocks (2017) and Link Up: The Orchestra Sings (2016).

Academic full opera performances include Nella, Gianni Schicchi (2016), La Suora Zelatrice, Suor Angelica (2016), and Miss Jessel, The Turn of the Screw (2016). Academic opera scenes performances include Norina, “Signorina, in tanta fretta…Via, caro sposino” from Don Pasquale (2016) and Musetta, Act IV from La bohème (2016).