Tessa McQueen

Soprano Tessa McQueen recently completed her tenure in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera, appearing in The Magic Flute (First Lady), La traviata (Annina), and the Met's Summerstage Recital Series (2025, 2026).

Highlights of McQueen's 2026-27 season include her European debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival in Wagner's Die Walküre (Helmwige), as part of the festival's new Ring Cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker, under Kirill Petrenko and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. She has been selected to compete in the Operalia 2026 in Shanghai. Last summer, McQueen returned to Wolf Trap Opera in Puccini's Tosca (title role) and debuted with the National Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Gianandrea Noseda. In the summer of 2025, she covered Strauss' Guntram (Freihild) with the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

A prize-winning artist, McQueen won first prize in both the 2026 Cooper-Bing Competition and the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition. She was named a National Finalist in the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition after winning both the Colorado–Wyoming District and Rocky Mountain Region rounds.

McQueen holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music, with honors, from Oklahoma City University. She was a 2024 participant in the Merola Opera Program, where she covered Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira) and performed Pagliacci (Nedda); and a 2023 Studio Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, appearing in Faust (Marguerite cover), Semele, and scenes from Idomeneo (Elettra), Falstaff (Alice Ford), and Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin).

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