Caryn Greco

Assistant Professor

Voice

Hailed as having a voice “with a rich core and sparkling bloom in its upper register” and “a soaring operatic lyric Soprano” by Pittsburgh Owlscribe, Caryn Greco has performed on the operatic and concert stages across North America and Scandinavia. Her operatic repertoire includes The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Barbarina/Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Papagena/Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte, Lezni Zinky/Kutchik/Rusalka in Rusalka, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Bianca in La Rondine, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Rose Maurrant in Street Scene, Manon, and Anna 1 in Seven Deadly Sins. She has appeared with the Pittsburgh Savoyards, ViVace Opera (Vancouver, BC), Toronto Summer Opera (Ontario), Finger Lakes Opera (New York), Portland Summer Opera (Oregon), Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Undercroft Opera, Bloomington Summer Opera (Indiana), Nordic Song Festival (Sweden), and Steel City Opera. 

Other stage credits include Aline in The Sorcerer, Josephine in HMS Pinafore, Elsie Maynard in Yeoman of the Guard, Giannetta in The Gondoliers, and Julia in The Grand Duke; as well as Lead/Lover in The Enchanted Forest, Granny in Little Red’s Most Unusual Day, and the title role of Papagayo. On the concert stage, she has appeared with the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra, Finger Lakes Symphony, and the West Virginia University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. Her concert repertoire includes Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Coronation Mass, Bach’s Magnificat, and Faure’s Requiem. 

A huge advocate for new music, she can be heard originating the role of Polly on the newly released album of Dr. Matthew Heap’s Dillinger: An American Oratorio and as the title role in Heap’s Helen Martin: An American Moment. She was most recently featured as the soprano soloist in Dr. David Taddie’s Five Haiku, performed with the West Virginia Chamber Orchestra in celebration of his work.

Originally from Winston-Salem, she received her Doctor of Musical Arts from West Virginia University and her Master and Bachelor of Music from Appalachian State University where she was introduced to two of her great passions; Scandinavian repertoire and West African Drum and Dance. She has toured the East Coast giving presentations and recitals on both subjects with her husband, Mitch Greco.