Praised for her “unique… distinctive voice of true mezzo timbre”, Cloe SanAntonio joins Palm Beach Opera as a Benenson Young Artist this season, where she will be heard on stage as the voice of Antonia’s Mother in The Tales of Hoffmann, cover Nicklausse/the Muse in the same opera, and finally, cover Adalgisa in Norma. Earlier this year, Cloe was named the Second Place Grant Winner in the Jensen Foundation Competition, a finalist in the Giulio Gari Competition, and was recognized with an Encouragement Award in the McCammon Voice Competition, hosted by Fort Worth Opera.

During the 2022-2023 season, Cloe joined the Resident Artist program at Portland Opera, where she was seen on stage as Mercèdes in Denyce Graves’ new production of Carmen, and spent the summer prior in New Hampshire and Savannah, GA: first with Opera North as Dorabella in their Warhol-inspired production of Così fan tutte and as a gender-bent Dottore Grenvil in La traviata, and later returned to the Savannah Voice Festival to sing Marthe in Faust and cover the title role in Michael Ching’s Alice Ryley.

Earlier in the 2021-2022 season, Cloe was heard as a featured soloist performing excerpts from Carmen with the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra, and was recognized as a District Winner (Boston) in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She also advanced to the finals of the Giulio Gari Competition, and the semi finals of the Loren L. Zachary Competition. In the summer of 2021, Cloe was heard as part of the Savannah Voice Festival, performing a variety of repertoire in several concerts, most notably as Angelina in the premiere of Michael Ching’s A Royal Feast, where she was also scheduled to sing the same role in Rossini’s La cenerentola in 2020.

During the 2019-2020 season, she made her international debut with the Festival d’Art Vocal in Montréal singing Musette in Leoncavallo’s rarely presented La bohème, and was awarded the Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation. She was also recognized in competition as a District Winner (Connecticut) and Encouragement Award Winner (New England Region) in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions as well as by the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition as a semi-finalist and prize winner. In the season prior, she was awarded as a grant recipient of the Gerda Lissner Foundation.

Cloe holds a Bachelor of Music from Long Island University and a Master of Music from Mannes: The New School of Music, where she also earned a Professional Studies Diploma. As a Mannes Opera Young Artist, she was heard on stage as Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and “delighted audiences” as Mother Goose (The Rake’s Progress), both under the baton of Maestro Joseph Colaneri. Other highlights include being named the 2018 winner of the Mannes Concerto Competition, which was followed with a performance of Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Mannes Orchestra, and finally, the privilege of studying the role of Jackie Kennedy (JFK) under the tutelage of its composer, David T. Little.

Photography: Musette, La bohème, ICAV, Pierre-Etienne Bergeron; Dorabella, Così fan tutte/Mother Goose, The Rake’s Progress, Mannes Opera, Eugenia Ames