Arizona Opera Cast Members & Creatives
Caitlin Gotimer
"Gotimer is a force of nature on stage… Her soaring vocal range and the depth of her acting establish Juliette as the driving force of the affair." — Broadway World
This summer, Gotimer makes her European debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Deutsche Oper Berlin. She also makes her debut as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro as a Renée Fleming Artist at the Aspen Music Festival, and she covers Musetta in La Bohème with the Bravo Vail Music Festival. Later, in the 2024/25 Season, Gotimer debuts in Pagliacci (Nedda) with Pittsburgh Opera; La fiamma (Silvana cover and La Voce) with Deutsche Oper Berlin; and La Bohème (Mimi) with Arizona Opera.
In the 2023/24 Season, Gotimer made her debut as Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo & Juliette with Arizona Opera, her Palm Beach Opera and Dayton Opera debuts as Tosca, and her Santa Fe Symphony debut as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah. In the 2022/23 Season, Gotimer debuted as Tosca with Arizona Opera, made her Dallas Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and joined The Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program, where she covered Tosca.
In her residency with the Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio, Gotimer made main stage debuts in Carmen (Micaëla), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), and A Little Night Music (Mrs. Anderssen). During her tenure as a resident artist with Pittsburgh Opera, she appeared as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, Elettra in a reimagining of Mozart’s Idomeneo, and covered Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. With Crested Butte Opera Studio, Gotimer performed as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Musetta in La Bohème. Other roles in Gotimer’s repertoire include the title role in Suor Angelica and Magda in La Rondine. In concert, Gotimer was a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem in D minor at the Festival Songe d’été en musique in Québec and Bach’s Missa Brevis in F with Binghamton University.
Gotimer won two top awards in the YPO/Florida Grand Opera Voice Competition and was the district winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition. She was a semifinalist in both the 2022 Vincerò Competition and the 2020 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, a finalist in the 2020 Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s Mildred Miller Competition, the Second Prize and Audience Favorite Award winner at the 2017 Opera Guild of Dayton Competition, the recipient of the Italo Tajo Award in CCM’s 2017 Corbett Competition, and the winner of the 2015 National Biennial Collegiate Voice Competition hosted by NFMC.
Gotimer holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she received her Bachelor of Music in Voice from Binghamton University.
