Hailed by Opera News for her “clear, poised and defiant soprano” and the Washington Post for her “silvery, pitch-perfect voice,” Maggie Finnegan’s versatile repertoire spans the medieval to the contemporary. Ms. Finnegan was announced as one of the S&R Foundation’s Washington Award winners and First Place winner and Audience Favorite in the Washington International Competition for Voice affording her a debut at the Kennedy Center.
Familiar to Boston audiences, Maggie Finnegan has made high marks among a wide range of projects. Throughout her career she has championed new works to include Lembit Beecher’s Sophia’s Forest; Ana Sokolović’s SVADBA; Louis Andriessen’s Odysseus’ Women/Anais Nin; White Snake Projects’ PermaDeath, A Video Game Opera; Julia Adolphe’s A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears and M.I.T. Media Lab’s VALIS.
Recent and upcoming projects have included: a recital at Vanderbilt University accompanied by masterclasses; in recital with the Brooklyn Art Song Society in a program of Webern songs; Little Stone in Aucoin’s Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera; Virginia Poe in Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe with Odyssey Opera, recorded by Boston Modern Orchestra; soloed with the Cantata Singers in Sandstroem’s Messiah; and, soloist with the Vancouver Symphony in 2024 with Haydn’s The Creation. This season she appears in White Snakes Project, Let’s Celebrate; a recording project with composer Tom Herman; she is Queen of the Night with Little Orchestra Society of New York; sings the roles of Xanthe/Aphrodite (Lysistrata) with Odyssey Opera and records with Boston Modern Opera Project; Carmina Burana with Portsmouth Pro Musica; and, returns to the Boston Lyric Opera.
Ms. Finnegan’s solo performance appearances include the PyeongChang Winter Music Festival in South Korea, the Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series, the Halcyon Stage, the Avanti Orchestra, the New Dominion Chorale, Handel & Haydn Society, The City Choir of Washington, the Capital Fringe Chamber Music Series, Beth Morrison Projects with Contemporaneous and the LA-based performance art group, My Barbarian. She is a core member of the critically acclaimed chamber ensemble The Broken Consort.
She can be heard on recordings of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X by Anthony Davis; The Wake World, by David Hertzberg; and, Everything for Dawn, with Experiments in Opera.
Ms. Finnegan earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music and her Master of Music degree from Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. www.MaggieFinneganSoprano.com
