About
American-Romanian Mezzo-Soprano, Elisabeta Racolta, is an international soloist renowned for her diverse repertoire and vocal versatility. She performed in theaters across the United States and internationally. Her broad repertoire, spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, includes operas, cantatas, oratorio, folk, Zarzuela and art songs in many languages. She is also an avid performer of Eastern European and rare works that showcases her passion for her heritage and underrepresented music. While trained in classical voice, she remains versatile in musical theater, folk, sacred music, pop, rock and jazz genres.
Starting her performance journey early, she debuted as Cherubino ‘Le Nozze Di Figaro’ (2018), and as the title role, and Mercedes in Bizet’s
‘Carmen’ (2019) with the Mediterranean Opera Studio and Festival under the baton of Leonardo Catalanotto and Emanuele Andrizzi in Italy.
She continued to grow her career during her school years with notable performances as The Mother in ‘Mavra’ by Stravinsky, Hermia and King Oberon in ‘Midsummer’ by Britten, Emilia in ‘Otello’ by Verdi at the Butler Opera Center in Austin, TX. In the FAVA William Lewis Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria, she sang the roles of Dritte Dame/Dritter Knabe in Die Zauberflote (2017), and made her return as Cherubino for their 2022 season in Le Nozze di Figaro. At the New England Conservatory Opera Festival in Boston, she sang Venere in Francesco Cavalli’s ‘L’Egisto’, Mercedes in ‘Carmen’ and Rosalia in Leonard Bernstein’s ‘West Side Story’.
An avid recitalist, Elisabeta performed in Carnegie Hall several times winning early acclaim at International Music, Vocal and Concerto competitions. She sang as a guest artist with Music in the Alps Festival in Austria, and the Concert Festival Winner’s tours in Portugal and France, and in Lincoln Center. Elisabeta performed in many concerts with a variety of themes, one of which was the touring Concert for Peace Music of Ukrainian Composers in 2022/23. In 2025, she arranged a solo concert titled ‘Songs of Love, Life, and Death’, together with vocal coach and pianist: Plotinos Micromatis. This concert gained notoriety, and made an impact in the local music scene. She continues to create her own events, and often collaborates with renowned musicians on the island, and abroad.
She is a winner of many voice competitions and awards, including the Grand Prix of The Rising Stars European Competition in Latvia, The Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Award for Women in Opera, and a Merit Scholarship from the FAVA William Lewis Mozart Academy. In 2021, she won the prestigious National Society of Arts and Letters Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship in Classical Voice Competition, and was a finalist of the National Teachers Association competition as an Emerging Professional. In 2023, Elisabeta won the top award in the Butler School of Music’s National Concerto Competition where she performed with the UT Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Farkhad Khudyev. Elisabeta completed her Bachelor’s Degree with honors in Vocal Performance with Opera Emphasis at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2021).
In 2023, under the tutelage of William Lewis, she graduated with her Master’s in Opera Performance from the Butler School of Music in Austin. In 2025, she made her debut in several productions with renowned theaters in Cyprus. She was a featured artist in modern productions such as ‘Hamlet (2025)’, ‘You, me, always together (2025)’ She continues to teach, and perform internationally pursuing her artistic career, while genre-bending and exploring new possibilities for her vocal and musical career.
Highlights
'Caro Mio Ben' by Giuseppe Giordani
Opera Arias and Art Songs
A staged adaptation of Dimitri Shostakovich's 'From Jewish Folk Poetry. Op.79' with the Butler Opera Center at the Butler School of Music. Austin, TX.
Music in the Alps
Elisabeta Racolta and Croatian tenor, Vladimir Garic, performing 'Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix' (Saint-Saëns) at the 'Music in the Alps' as guest artists in Bad Gastein, Austria.
Songs Re-Imagined
Butler Opera Center - Opera Scenes
'Povvera Butterfly!' from Giacomo Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly"
A variety of staged scenes from the Butler Opera Center - from Puccini to Weill. Featuring the graduate and undergraduate singers of the Butler Opera Center.
Butler Opera Center - Shakespeare Gala
'Now, Now, the Hungry Lion Roars!' from Benjamin Britten's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream"
A variety of staged scenes from operatic adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Featuring the graduate and undergraduate singers and orchestra of the Butler Opera Center.
'Seguidilla' from Georges Bizet's 'Carmen'
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