Zerouali, Olivier

Baritone
(Middletown, Delaware)

Baritone Olivier Zerouali was a 2024 participant in the Merola Opera Program where he sang Silvio in the love duet from Pagliacci, was a featured soloist on the chamber music recital: Song As Drama, covered the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni, and performed Malatesta in a scene from Don Pasquale at the Merola Grand Finale.

He has performed the roles of Robert in Iolanta, Slook in Rossini’s Il Cambiale di Matrimonio, Betto in Gianni Schicchi, and Brother in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins, all with Yale Opera Theatre. In 2023 he performed Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette for his debut with the Glimmerglass Festival. Other roles include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon, the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro and Zaretsky/Captain in Eugene Onegin. He also workshopped two new operas with Highlands Opera Studio: Olivia Shortt’s The Museum of the Lost and Found and Ashley Au’s Inertia.

Zerouali completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Music, is currently completing his master’s degree at Yale University, and has received training with the Merola Opera Program, Glimmerglass Festival, Young Artists Vocal Academy of Houston Grand Opera, Highlands Opera Studio, and Berlin Opera Academy. He is currently a student of Gerald Martin Moore.