Margaret Tigue

BIOGRAPHY

Praised by OperaWire for "a power and seeming effortlessness that [is] quite amazing...", Margaret Tigue is a soprano based in New York City.

Margaret’s 2026 season highlights include a fellowship with Cincinnati Song Initiative; a concert with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players; first prize in SongSlam’s New York Virtual Slam Competition, (both with her duo partner, Jarod Yap, at the piano); a summer residency with Napa Valley Opera covering Venus in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s The Judgment of Paris; an appearance as a featured soloist in Bard Summer Festival’s Mozart and his World concert series; and a week-long residency with Brooklyn Art Song Society in December.

Her 2024-2025 season included the roles of Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica), Florencia Grimaldi (Florencia en el Amazonas), and Eliza (Dark Sisters) with the Boston University Opera Institute, where she was in residence. In 2025, she participated in Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio Workshop and was a finalist in the McCammon Voice Competition with Fort Worth Opera. Margaret was also a semi-finalist in Young Concert Artists 2025 international auditions, and a finalist for the Federation of the Art Song Fellowship Competition in collaboration with Jarod.

Margaret’s 2023-2024 season included performances as Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) and Cendrillon (Cendrillon) in the Opera Institute. In the spring of 2024, Margaret appeared with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester as the soprano soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, followed by a concert showcasing repertoire from the Great American Songbook. In 2023, Margaret was named a winner of the Boston district of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competiton, and a New England Regional Finalist. Margaret was also a fellow at Music Academy of the West. While there, she covered the role of Mimì in their production of La Bohème. Margaret is also a two-time fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center (2019 & 2022).

She won second prize in MassOpera’s 2022 Vocal Competition, and in 2017 she won an Encouragement Award in the Michigan district of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Margaret has been a featured soloist on the concert stage with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Her previous opera credits include the roles of Helena in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites.

Margaret earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan, and her Master’s Degree from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program.