Paige Calvert, soprano

Opera: Semele

Role: Iris & (Semele Cover)

MIOpera Debut

Paige Calvert is a lyric soprano currently based in Peoria, Illinois. She recently earned her Master ofMusic in Opera Performance from Oklahoma City University's Wanda L. Bass School of Music. A Central Illinois native, Paige received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she won the Thomas J. Smith Performance Competition and the Voice Area Achievement Award. As a crossover artist, some of Paige’s favorite roles include Sarah (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Charlotte Malcolm (A Little Night Music), the Angel City Alto (City of Angels), 2nd Rusalka (Leontovych’s Rusalka), and Donna Gondola in the world premiere of João Ripper’s children’s opera, Candinho.

Paige spent the summer of 2024 in Nellysford, Virginia, as one of four vocal artists selected for the Wintergreen Music Festival’s LEAD Cooperative. As a LEAD Young Artist, she performed as the soprano soloist in Marianna Morales’s oratorio Dixit Dominus and collaborated on a variety of chamber works and new music with fellow LEAD artists and festival musicians.

Since returning to the Midwest, Paige has maintained an active career as a performer and educator. In the summer of 2025, she joined Painted Sky Opera for its ninth season, performing Frasquita in scenes from Carmen in Overture: An Evening of Operatic Gems and covering the role of die Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte. She currently serves on the adjunct voice faculty at Illinois Central College and continues to teach, perform, and music direct throughout Central Illinois.