Maggie Finnegan

GRAMMY®-nominated soprano Maggie Finnegan has been hailed by Opera News for her “bright coloratura” and “finely tuned high soprano,” and by The Washington Post for her “silvery, pitch-perfect voice.” This season includes projects with Odyssey Opera (Lysistrata by Mark Adamo), Boston Lyric Opera (The Seasons, world premiere), Brooklyn Art Song Society, The Little Orchestra Society (Family Friendly Magic Flute), Pro Musica Portsmouth, and Pioneer Valley Symphony (Carmina Burana).

In 2023–24, Maggie performed as Linda Lampton in Tod Machover’s sci-fi opera VALIS with the MIT Media Lab, Little Stone in Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera, Virginia Poe in Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe with Odyssey Opera, Sandström’s A Messiah for Our Time with the New England Philharmonic, Webern’s Op. 25 with the Brooklyn Art Song Society, and made her Canadian debut in Haydn’s The Creation with the Vancouver Symphony.

Career highlights include Queen of the Night with Mass Opera and On Site Opera, Danica in Boston Lyric Opera’s film of Ana Sokolović’s Svadba, Anya in the world premiere film of Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera), Sophia in the West Coast premiere of Lembit Beecher’s Sophia’s Forest with Opera Parallèle, L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Belgian National Orchestra, Louis Andriessen’s Odysseus’ Women / Anaïs Nin (Center for Contemporary Opera, Andriessenfest in Amsterdam), the world premiere of Dan Visconti’s PermaDeath: A Video Game Opera with White Snake Projects, and a world premiere duo recital with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe presented by Sparks and Wiry Cries.

Opera recordings include Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (BMOP Sound), Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (BMOP Sound), David Hertzberg’s The Wake World (Tzadik), and Mark Adamo’s Lysistratawith Odyssey Opera (Pentatone).

Please visit Maggie at maggiefinnegansoprano.com.