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Stephanie Chigas
Illinois native mezzo-soprano Stephanie Chigas (Second Maid) has performed with the Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland. In the 2007–08 season she appeared as Flora in Verdi’s La traviata and Albine in Massenet’s Thaïs with Boston Lyric Opera; and as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro with Sinfonia da Camera. She covered the role of Leda in Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur at New York City Opera. Her concert performances at Carnegie Hall have included Duruflé’s Requiem, and Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem. She has also performed Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, at Boston’s Symphony Hall with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Chigas is the winner of the 2005 George London Foundation Competition and is the 2004 recipient of the Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence awarded through the Boston Lyric Opera. She was a 2003 National Semi-Finalist for The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and the Second-Place Winner in the New England Region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2005. She is making her New York Philharmonic debut.
Photo of Stephanie Chigas: Robert Gilder & Co.
