"Caitlin Gotimer displayed a dramatic soprano of quality and agility as Elettra,...She delivered her music powerfully and skillfully, and possibly carried away the evening’s top vocal honors." - George B. Parous, PGH in the Round
This summer, Caitlin Gotimer makes her European debut with Deutsche Oper Berlin in Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), debuts in Le nozze di Figaro (Countess) at Aspen Music Festival, and covers Musetta in La bohème with the Bravo Vail Music Festival.
Other future engagements include Pagliacci (Nedda) with Pittsburgh Opera, Don Giovanni (Donna Anna cover) and La fiamma (Silvana cover and La Madre) with Deutsche Oper Berlin, Handel's Messiah with Idaho Falls Symphony; and La bohème (Mimi) with Arizona Opera.
In 2023/24, she made her debut as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Arizona Opera, her Palm Beach Opera and Dayton Opera debuts as Tosca, and her Santa Fe Symphony debut as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In the 2022/23 season, Ms. Gotimer sang Tosca with Arizona Opera and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Dallas Opera. That summer, she joined The Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Program, where she covered Tosca. She was a finalist and encouragement award winner in the 2023 Operalia competition.
In her residency with the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, Ms. Gotimer made main stage debuts in Carmen (Micaëla), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), and A Little Night Music (Mrs. Anderssen). During her tenure as a resident artist with Pittsburgh Opera, she appeared as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, Elettra in a reimagining of Mozart’s Idomeneo, and covered Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème. With Crested Butte Opera Studio, Ms. Gottimer performed as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Musetta in La bohème. Other roles in Ms. Gotimer’s repertoire include the title role in Suor Angelica, Magda in La Rondine, and Nedda in I Pagliacci.
In concert, Ms. Gotimer was a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem in D minor at the Festival Songe d’été en musique in Québec and Bach’s Missa Brevis in F with Binghamton University. A champion of new works, she has appeared in Hilliard and Boresi’s The Last American Hammer (Tink Enraught), Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied (Older Alyce), and Conrad Susa’s Transformations (Anne Sexton).
Ms. Gotimer holds high honors and top awards in various competitions globally. She won two top awards in the YPO/Florida Grand Opera Voice Competition and she was the district winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition. She was a semifinalist in both the 2022 Vincerò Competition and the 2020 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, a finalist in the 2020 Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Mildred Miller Competition, the Second Prize and Audience Favorite Award winner at the 2017 Opera Guild of Dayton Competition, the recipient of the Italo Tajo Award in CCM’s 2017 Corbett Competition, and the winner of the 2015 National Biennial Collegiate Voice Competition hosted by NFMC.
"Newcomer Caitlin Gotimer, doubling as Sandman and Dew Fairy, impressed with a full, focused soprano that penetrated easily and perked up listeners’ ears in her two brief appearances."
Robert Croan, Opera News
Robert Croan, Opera News
Ms. Gotimer holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she received her Bachelor of Music in Voice from Binghamton University, where she was introduced to classical singing thanks to Professor Thomas Goodheart.
"Caitlin Gotimer, in the title role, delivered an object lesson on the art of classical singing...she seemed undaunted by the demands of the role, negotiating the most intricate ornamentations and sustained, high-flung passages with equal agility."
George B. Parous, PGH in the Round
George B. Parous, PGH in the Round