About
HOLLY FLACK
"exceptional"
"virtuosic"
"Chief among the standouts was soprano Holly Flack as Pauline, the second of the killer’s three victims whose performance was exceptional. Her voice soared into the stratosphere with crystalline clarity, producing electric bell tones with ease. Her mastery of vocal color and control in the most extreme registers was virtuosic, yet never ostentatious. In a piece where the voice represents both agency and victim, Flack managed to embody both, capturing fragility and bravura in equal measure."
BACHTRACK
Theater an der Wien, Voice Killer
Biography.
A thrilling vocal presence and commanding musicality have highlighted coloratura soprano Holly Flack as a versatile talent with a repertoire spanning centuries and styles. Praised as an “explosive talent” with her warm, flowing middle voice, rippling coloratura and effortless trills, she “wields an impressive range, effortlessly reaching higher than high notes” with her stratospheric vocal extension.
Internationally, Holly Flack originated the role of Mollie the horse in Dutch National Opera’s world premiere of Animal Farm by Alexander Raskatov. She has since reprised this role at Finnish National Opera and the Wiener Staatsoper, for which she received the 2025 Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis (Austrian Music Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Female Role. Other European debuts include Venus & Gepopo in Le Grand Macabre at Teatro Massimo, Palermo and Pauline & Military Cop in the world premiere of Voice Killer by Miroslav Srnka at Theater an der Wien. She made her initial European debut at the Trentino Music Festival in Mezzano, Italy singing the role of the Vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen. Holly has also traveled to China with the iSing! Festival for concerts in different cities around the country, and has performed on CCTV and other national networks for China’s National Day Celebration and the Chinese New Year. She sang Ms. Chen Wang, the wife in the U.S. premiere of Painted Skin with the China Now Music Festival. In 2022, she singularly represented the USA singing in a promotional video for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Holly Flack's operatic engagements include the title role in Semele, Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Gilda in Rigoletto, La Musica & Eurydice in L’Orfeo, Madeline in The Fall of the House of Usher, Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Ophélie in Hamlet, Elvira in L'Italiana in Algeri, Le Feu, La Princesse, and Le Rossignol in L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Morgana in Alcina for which she received the Theatre Tampa Bay Award for “Outstanding Featured Actress”, and the title role in Dinorah (Le Pardon de Ploërmel) for which she received a “Star-Making Performance” award from Mr. Fred Plotkin in his Seventh Annual “Freddie” Awards for Excellence in Opera, stating she “sang the title role with astonishing fluidity and confidence... as if it was her birthright.”
In concert, Holly Flack has sung soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, and Orff’s Carmina Burana, where she “delighted, flawlessly climbed to the extremes of her register, and continued with effortless coloratura”. She was also a featured soloist in concert with the New York City Ballet Orchestra at David H. Koch Theater, and with The Philadelphia Orchestra in iSING! Suzhou’s “Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems” concert at Alice Tully Hall.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College and a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky.
She lit up the house.
"Soprano Holly Flack maintained the calm resoluteness of Costanza with a variety of yoga poses and even wrapped the bedsheet around herself a la the Statue of Liberty. She also lit up the house with vocal pyrotechnics, soaring to a jaw-dropping B-flat above high C during one of her arias. She did that twice – which certainly convinced listeners who might not have believed their ears the first time around – and received the loudest applause of the performance."