Adelaide Boedecker

Biography

Soprano, Adelaide Boedecker, has been described as “emotionally transparent and beguiling of tone” The San Francisco Chronicle. Following major familial health issues in 2025, Ms. Boedecker has returned to singing. As of now, the 2026-2027 season will see Ms. Boedecker return as the soprano soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s BWV 140, return as the soprano soloist with Sarasota’s Key Chorale in Mozart’s C Minor Mass, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate as well as Mozart’s Requiem, following that she will be the soprano soloist in Brahm’s Ein deutches Requiem with the Cathedral church of the Advent in Birmingham, AL, and finally be the soprano soloist with Cappricio Columbus in their production of Mozart’s Requiem. Upcoming in 2027-2028, she will make her debut with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra.

The 2025-2026 season saw Ms. Boedecker once again soloing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Coronation Mass and soloing with Sarasota’s Key Chorale in their Opus 1700 concert series, amongst various other concerts in Southwest Florida. In the 2023-2024 season, she once again appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, covering the roll of Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Additionally, Ms. Boedecker made her return to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and Bach’s Magnificat in D, as well as her Carnegie Hall debut as the soprano soloist in Schubert’s Mass in G and Forrest’s LUX.

The 2022-2023 season saw Ms. Boedecker return to the Metropolitan Opera roster, to cover the role of Tebaldo in Don Carlos. During the 2021-2022 season Ms. Boedecker returned to Pittsburgh Opera to perform Pamina in The Magic Flute, joined the Metropolitan Opera roster, covering Thibault in Don Carlos and Tebaldo in Don Carlo, sang as a featured soloist with the Choral Artists of Sarasota, and upcoming, and made her Florida Grand Opera debut as Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers. In the spring of 2021, she covered the role of Frasquita in Carmen with Atlanta Opera and performed the role of Norina in Don Pasquale with Opera Las Vegas.

During the 2019-2020 season, Ms. Boedecker joined the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Capriccio Columbus as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, the Naples Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, and the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe for their New Year’s Eve Gala, where she performed Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate. During the spring of 2020, Ms. Boedecker returned to Sarasota Opera where she performed the role of Adina in L’elisir d’amore, and was scheduled to return to Opera Las Vegas to reprise the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (canceled due to COVID-19).

In 2018 she performed the role of Clorinda in La Cenerentola with Opera Las Vegas, and made her role debut as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with James Conlon and James Darrah, at Music Academy of the West. In the spring of 2019, Ms. Boedecker made her role debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and covered the title role in Donizetti’s Rita with Sarasota Opera, she made her Opera Columbus debut in their Opera Swings Jazz concerts and returned to Santa Fe Opera to sing Meredian in Joe Illick and Andrea Walter’s UnShakeable.

Past performance credits include Micaëla in The Tragedy of Carmen with Opera Birmingham, Yum-Yum in The Mikado with Performance Santa Fe, and Clorinda in La Cenerentola with both Syracuse Opera and El Paso Opera.

As a former resident artist with Pittsburgh Opera, Ms. Boedecker performed Alice B. Toklas in 27, Marie in Daughter of the Regiment, Frasquita in Carmen, Anna in Nabucco, Beth in Little Women, Mabrouka in Sumeida’s Song, and covered Despina in Così fan tutte.

Ms. Boedecker spent two summers as an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera and two summers with the Merola Opera Program. With Merola, role highlights include Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire and Despina in Così fan tutte. Santa Fe Opera performances include Ida in Die Fledermaus, Tessa in Trinity, Sarah in Avastar, and Featured Soloist in the Grammy Award Winning (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Additionally with Santa Fe, she covered the roles of Marie in La fille du régiment, Serpetta in La finta giardiniera, Lila/Laura in Cold Mountain, and Chrisann in (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.

Competition highlights include winning the Santa Fe Opera Anna Case MacKay Award, winning the National Opera Association competition, scholarship division, and winning second place in the American Prize competition for professional singers.

Ms. Boedecker made her professional debut at age 17, as Barbarina, with the Sarasota Opera. She received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Performance from University of Florida, where she graduated summa cum laude, and received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music.