Caitlin Lynch studied at the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music before training with the young artist programs of Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Glimmerglass Festival.

Caitlin returned to the Metropolitan Opera during the 2024–25 season for two Mozart titles—singing the First Lady in The Magic Flute, and covering Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. In summer 2025, she creates the title role of Siddhartha, a new scenic oratorio composed by Christopher Theofanidis and conducted by Robert Spano at the Aspen Music Festival. She also rejoins the Grand Teton Music Festival as the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, led by Sir Donald Runnicles.

Highlights of Caitlin’s 2025–26 season include her title-role debut in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah in Patricia Racette’s production at Opera Omaha.

The soprano’s 2023–24 season began with the highly anticipated world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera, in which Caitlin sang the leading role of Callie Van Lew. She subsequently returned to the Metropolitan Opera as the First Lady and covering the role of Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours. Caitlin concluded the season with The Washington Chorus, as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and with the Grand Teton Music Festival, as the First Lady, conducted by Runnicles.

During the 2022–23 season, Caitlin helped celebrate the 25th anniversary of Music of Remembrance with performances of Jake Heggie’s Another Sunrise in Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the pivotal role of Clarissa Vaughan in the stage premiere of Kevin Puts and Greg Pierce’s The Hours.

Caitlin made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Biancofiore in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, and has subsequently performed Cynthia in Nico Muhly’s world-premiere production of Two Boys, Contessa Almaviva, and Pamina in The Magic Flute with the company. Her other recent operatic engagements include the First Lady in Barrie Kosky and 1927’s production of Die Zauberflöte for Houston Grand Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with the Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for her debut with English National Opera.

photo by Benjamin Weatherston