AlissaGoretsky

About Alissa

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 third-year Ernest and Sarah Butler Young Artist at the Houston Grand Opera. Roles in Houston for the 25-26 season included Curley's Wife (Of Mice and Men), Gretel (Hänsel und 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 returned to the company in Summer 2026, covering Tatyana in Eugene Onegin and debuting as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.

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.

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.

Alissa is based in Houston, Texas

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Season Highlights

Sep 2026 - Jun 2027
Houston Grand Opera, USA
Third-year Butler Studio Artist for the 26/27 season.

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  • Of Mice and Men (Curley's Wife)

    Houston Grand Opera
    Mar 2026

    • Soprano Alissa Goretsky easily tossed off the coloratura bursts that evoke the flirtatiousness of Curley’s Wife, whose temptation of Lennie turns the story toward tragedy. ... But Goretsky’s voice had heft, too, and she easily matched Sampson’s impact when she and Lennie each revelled in their dreams of the future—illusions of Hollywood, in her case.

    • "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."

    • As Curley's Wife, Alissa Goretsky realized the role's crucial ingredients of a woman both troubled and troublesome because of her isolation and loneliness. Her honeyed soprano voice suited the young bride's beauty with a ready flexibility for the flirtatious melismas when in the company of ranch hands and a hall-filling power during her strident neglected-wife's squabbles with Curley.

    • Soprano Alissa Goretsky, utterly alluring as Curley's wife, makes a grand entrance in a pretty dress. The only woman in the story, she is the embodiment of sensuality and vanity. She flirts. She demands attention. She commands the room... Goretksy's ravishing coloratura shines brightly in this role, each soaring and virtuosically delivered phrase a triumph of her power.

  • La Cenerentola (Clorinda)

    Houston Grand Opera
    Oct 2024 - Nov 2024

    • Soprano Alissa Goretsky and mezzo Emily Treigle, as stepdaughters Clorinda and Tisbe, in their comically inflated panniers and cotton-candy wigs, add flair, vaudeville shtick, and sumptuous voices to the cartoon adventures.

    • Alissa Goretsky (Clorinda) and Emily Treigle (Tisbe), equal masters of outrageous behavior in the two stepsister roles, were nicely paired for their distinctive and contrasting voices, Goretsky’s brilliant soprano versus Treigle’s rich mezzo-soprano.

    • 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