Stephanie Chigas

Stephanie Chigas is originally from the Chicago area and studied at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and at Boston University’s Opera Institute. Her opera credits include lead roles in La Tragédie de Carmen, La Finta Giardiniera, The Rape of Lucretia, Bizet’s Carmen, Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Così fan tutte and Hansel and Gretel. She has sung with the Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and the Olney Theatre. This fall, Ms. Chigas covers the role of Leda in The Mines of Sulphur for the New York City Opera and for Sinfonia da Camera she will sing the role of La Sphinge in the American Premiere of George Enecu’s opera Oedipe. In November, she reprises the role of Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia at the Olney Theatre.

Ms. Chigas is equally comfortable on the concert stage. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2001 as the mezzo soprano soloist in the Duruflè Requiem. Other concert credits include Brahms Alto Rhapsody and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasie and Mass in C.

Ms. Chigas is the 2005 George London Foundation Competition Winner and the 2004 recipient of The Stephen Shrestinian Award for Excellence awarded through The Boston Lyric Opera. She was a 2003 Grand 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.

In the spring of 2006, Ms. Chigas returns to Boston to sing Flora Bervoix in La Traviata and Albine in Thaïs both with the Boston Lyric Opera.