Alice Del Simone

Soprano

Alice Del Simone, a San Francisco Bay Area native, received her B.A. in Vocal Performance and B.S. in Plant Science from UC Davis in 2014. Del Simone completed her M.M. in Voice Performance & Pedagogy at the University of Colorado Boulder where she is currently pursuing a DMA in Voice Performance & Pedagogy studying with AndrewGarland and Jennifer Bird-Arvidsson.

Del Simone enjoys performing varied repertoire including upcoming performances as Kitty Hart in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Eklund Opera and Sophie in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier with Boulder Opera. Recent operatic appearances include Bubikopf in Viktor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Colorado MahlerFest and Vera Tyrrell in Mark Adamo’s Sarah in the Theater with CU NOW, Nannetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, La Fée in Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon, The Lady with a Hand Mirror in Dominick Argento’s Postcard from Morocco, and Poppea in George Frideric Handel’s Agrippina with Eklund Opera, First Witch in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Opera Fort Collins, Clytemnestra in the premiere of Anne Hege’s The Furies with Stanford Laptop Orchestra, The Cricket and The Blue Fairy in Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio and La Princesse, Le Rosignol, and Le Feu in Maurice Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with Boulder Opera Company, Gilda in Lori Laitman’s Three Feathers with Opera Steamboat, and La Feé in Pauline Viardot’s Cendrillon with Loveland Opera’s Educational Outreach. She has also performed as Cis in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring at the Miami Summer Music Festival, in the Ensemble in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Opera Parallèle.

Performance

On the concert stage, Del Simone has recently performed the Israelitish Woman in Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus with Seicento Baroque Ensemble and as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Boulder Bach Festival and Kalos Arts Foundation. In 2025, she was the fourth-place winner in the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition and a finalist in that competition in 2024 and 2022. In 2024 she was a semi-finalist for the CU Boulder Ekstrand Competition and finalist in the Art Song Colorado Competition, and in 2025, Del Simone was the first-place winner of the Art Song Colorado Competition. She is also an active choral performer. She has recently performed with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Boulder’s Ars Nova, 21V, Volti, San Francisco Ballet, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Berkeley Symphony, and ODC among others.

Education and Voice Teaching

Del Simone currently serves as Education Director for Boulder Opera, the leader of the Boulder Bach Festival Fellowship Artist Vocal Quartet and teaches vocal pedagogy for the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She currently maintains a small private voice studio. Del Simone enjoys approaching the challenges of vocal instruction with positive energy and optimism and celebrates the differences that make each voice unique. In pursuit of centering stylistic diversity in her teaching and performing career, Del Simone is currently undertaking voice science research to assess the use of nasalance in musical theater and western classical singing. She also actively seeks and commissions works by female and POC composers for her own performance and for her students including a recent commission from composer Eric Tuan of a set of songs called I Shall Go West on the poetry of Mary Hunter Austin about the flora and fauna of California’s High Sierra Region. Del Simone, with her collaborative partner Matt Sebald, will present I Shall Go West in a solo recital called Voices of the Wild produced by Art Song Colorado in October 2025.