Second-year Butler Studio artist from Los Angeles, Alissa Goretsky was the third-place winner of HGO’s 2024 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias. In the 2025-26 season, she will sing Young Lover in Il tabbaro and Nursing Sister in Suor Angelica, both part of Il trittico; Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel; Gretel in Family Day Hansel and Gretel; Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men; and Berta in The Barber of Seville. Goretsky is a 2025 Apprentice Singer for Santa Fe Opera, where she is covering the role of Mimì in La bohème and Helmwige in Die Walküre. During the 2024-25 season, she made her HGO debut as Clorinda in Cinderella and performed the role again for the company’s English-language Family Day production. She made her operatic debut as Gismonda in Ottone at Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall under the baton of Corey Jameson in 2019. In March 2024 she performed the role of Ma Zegner in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up, also at Caroline Hume Hall. Goretsky is a National Winner of the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She holds both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.