About
Alissa Goretsky
"smartly performed... with a gorgeous voice"
"Curley's Wife was more than ably sung by soprano Alissa Goretsky; Curley's Wife is both ambitious and bored and perhaps not very bright. Bored, she spends her time teasing the men around her; her character is the only female role in the cast... She was smartly performed by Goretsky with a gorgeous voice to boot."
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
Biography
A 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals Winner, Alissa Goretsky has been praised for her "honeyed soprano" with "hall-filling power" (The Houston Chronicle). She is currently a second-year Ernest and Sarah Butler Young Artist at the Houston Grand Opera, where this season she can be seen as Curley's Wife (Of Mice and Men), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Taumännchen (Hänsel und Gretel), Young Lover (Il Tabarro), Nursing Sister (Suor Angelica), and Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia). After covering Helmwige (Die Walküre) and Mimì (La bohème) with The Santa Fe Opera in 2025, she looks forward to a return to the company this summer, covering Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. She will return to HGO this fall.
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In her first year with Houston Grand Opera, Alissa made her house debut as Clorinda in La Cenerentola and went on to cover Mimì in La bohème. She made her operatic debut as Gismonda in Handel's Ottone with San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Baroque Ensemble, and her recent roles have also included the Foreign Woman in Menotti's The Consul, Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Emilia in Handel's Flavio. She covered both Sister Alice and Sister Catherine in Dialogues des Carmélites at San Francisco Opera.
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Beyond her 2025 win in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Alissa has earned 3rd Place in the 2024 Houston Grand Opera Concert of Arias and was the winner of the 2023 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition. She was also the 1st and Grand Prize winner of the 2022 Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition, a finalist in the 2022 Orpheus Competition, and a finalist in the 2021 Burbank Philharmonic Young Artist Competition.
"Soprano Alissa Goretsky and mezzo-soprano Emily Treigle flounced around with abandon as Cinderella’s stepsisters, and the same glee carried into their singing."
TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, La Cenerentola