American lyric soprano Tessa McQueen joins the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera for the 2024-2025 season. This past March, she was named a 2024 National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Dominique and Eric Laffont Competition. Other highlights of the 2023-24 season include the titular role in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia at Rice University in Houston. This past summer, McQueen was a resident of the prestigious Merola Opera Program, where she covered the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and sang Nedda in Pagliacci for the Schwabacher Scenes Concert. In the summer of 2023, she was a Studio Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where she covered the role of Marguerite in Faust. In 2022, she worked with Central City Opera as a Studio Artist, where she sang the role of Krystyna Zywulska in Two Remain (Out of Darkness) by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer. This earned her the coveted “Young Artist of the Season” award, and gained sponsorship by the El Pomar Foundation.

No stranger to the concert stage, Ms. McQueen has been a guest soloist with the Washington City Choir and The Rice Chorale, in works such as Grand C-Minor Mass by Mozart (2024) and John Rutter’s Requiem (2022). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University (‘19) and a Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from Rice University (‘24).