“Amy Goymerac’s Dew Fairy is
a one-woman dazzlement…”
~Operaville
Amy Goymerac is widely known for her striking, rich soprano instrument and her enchanting stage presence. Comfortable in opera, musical theatre and symphonic works, Ms. Goymerac’s experience spans from Baroque to Contemporary, with notable experience debuting works by living composers. In Fall 2025 she will premiere the work, La Cita, by Douglas Cuomo, with renowned Romero Guitar Quartet at the historic Herbst Theater in San Francisco, her first time on that stage. This will be her second collaboration with the legendary Pepe Romero, the first being an intimate recital in spring of 2022 where her rendition of the Bachianias Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa Lobos received a standing ovation and remains as one of her most memorable performances. Her first studio album, To All Women Everywhere by composer Deon Nielsen Price, was released on all streaming platforms during Summer of 2024, recorded at the beautiful Presidio Chapel in San Francisco. In fall of 2024, she will revisit the role of Micaëla in Georges Bizet’s tragedy, Carmen, with Opera San Luis Obispo.
Her European debut was in summer of 2022, singing the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem in Athens, Greece with Pan-European Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra. When she returned home, she hopped off the plane and back into the world of musical theatre for her role debut as Julie Jordan in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel with Opera San Luis Obispo. Since then she has done three symphonic debuts with the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale and Orchestra, the Mozart C minor Mass, the Poulenc Gloria and Fauré Requiem.
She began her 2019-2020 season with a return to Opera San Jose singing Dew Fairy and Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Adele in Die Fledermaus. In early 2020, Ms. Goymerac had her symphonic debut as the soprano soloist for both Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with San Luis Obispo Symphony. During the pandemic, her 2018 performance of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) was live-streamed by Opera San Luis Obispo. She returned to live performance in December of 2021 as the soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah with the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale.
The 2018-2019 season was filled with professional firsts. One bucket-list item, to premiere a role in a new opera, was realized in April 2019, where Ms. Goymerac portrayed the role of Charlotte in the concert premiere of Kirke Mechem’s newest opera, Pride and Prejudice, with Redwood Symphony in Redwood City, California. She also performed two of her Mozartean dream roles: Pamina in The Magic Flute with Opera San Luis Obispo, continuing as their Resident Artist, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Center Stage Opera in Southern California.
The 2017-2018 season was full of both debuts at new companies and returns to others for Ms. Goymerac. Fall 2017 saw her major company debut at Opera San Jose as Georgette in La rondine as well as Annina in La traviata at Independent Opera Company in Los Angeles, California. Before the year was through she returned to Opera San Luis Obispo to portray the role of the Aunt and Kate Pinkerton (cover) in their Fall production of Madama Butterfly. Spring of 2018 brought her saucy rendition of Parthénis in La belle Hélène with Pocket Opera of San Francisco and concluded with the ever-obnoxious Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma! at Opera San Luis Obispo.
Ms. Goymerac’s East Coast debut was at the Amherst Early Music Festival in New London, Connecticut during the summer of 2017. There she performed roles in two rarely seen early operas, Fortune in Cavalli’s Erismena and Mrs. Peachum in John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Also in 2017 she was a winner of the 2017 Mayflower Choral Society Scholarship, an award given each year to a small number of promising young singers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A skilled comedic actress, Ms. Goymerac charmed hundreds of children in 2017 in her portrayal of the mischievous Banana Rabbit in a new children’s opera by Hector Armienta called Los Coyotes y Las Conejas (Opera Cultura). With over 25 performances throughout the Bay Area and Monterey County, this lovable bilingual piece was a highlight of her season.
Ms. Goymerac thrives in the world of early music. One of her most significant collaborations took place at the 2016 Berkeley Festival as part of its popular Fringe Series. There Ms. Goymerac gave a recital of rarely performed arias and duets by Barbara Strozzi with mezzo-soprano Alyssa Burdick and guitarist Tatiana Senderowicz (theorbo). Also, in 2015 she performed three roles in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Fortuna, Valletto, and Pallade) with the San Francisco Conservatory Baroque Ensemble.
Ms. Goymerac earned her Master of Music degree in 2015 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied vocal performance with Sylvia Anderson. While at SFCM, she performed the role of Micaëla in Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen, a chamber version of Bizet’s masterpiece. While earning her master’s degree, Ms. Goymerac performed with Concerts at the Presidio in the role of Susanna in an abridged version of Le nozze di Figaro. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and two minors in Music and Religious Studies from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. There she was awarded the Janet Lee Memorial Scholarship for her dedication and work within the Music Department.
Ms. Goymerac is a Lecturer in Vocal Performance with the Music Department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California in addition to running her private home studio. She earned her Graduate Certificate of Vocology from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in spring of 2024 and runs a Vocology studio from her home on the Central Coast of California where she lives with her husband, two daughters and Labrahuahua mix.
You can view Ms. Goymerac’s resume here.