Alison Scherzer
About this Artist
Soprano Alison Scherzer’s portfolio spans opera, musical theater, concert, operetta, theater, and film. A specialist in contemporary music, Scherzer’s musical projects for season 2025/26 include a radio performance with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the world premiere of the opera Hagar from Jan Peter de Graaff as Sarai with the Nederlandse Reisopera, as well as the role of Wife in Schnittke’s Life with an Idiot at Theater Magdeburg.
Season 2024/25 projects included a recording of Gerald Barry’s one-woman opera La Plus Forte as Madame X with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Nouvel Opéra Fribourg. Additionally, with Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, Scherzer premiered two short opera commissions, the title role in Céline by Richard Harvey and as the Pythia in Oracle by David Buckley. She performed the title role in the world premiere of Gerald Barry’s opera Salome and reprised the title role of Barry’s opera Alice’s Adventures Under Ground at the Grande Théâtre de Genève.
Scherzer made her house debut at the Nederlandse Reisopera during the 2023/24 season as Maid in Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face, a role which she has performed with Nouvel Opéra Fribourg and Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, where she previously sang Cecily Cardew in Gerald Barry’s The Importance of Being Earnest. She was a soloist at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau, where she sang Maid in Powder Her Face, Franziska Cagliari in Wiener Blut, Ulla in The Producers, and Stella/Ella in Frau Luna. Other roles include Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Zerbinetta and Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Curley’s Wife in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, and Maria in The Sound of Music.
Scherzer studied at the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music. She is currently based in Cologne, Germany.