This season, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford tours the US and Europe with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, and appears in Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival in a performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. She also makes her debuts with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Symphony, and Santa Barbara Symphony.

A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ms. Mumford made her debut there as Laura in Luisa Miller, and has since appeared as Smeaton in the new production of Anna Bolena, and in productions of Rigoletto, Ariadne auf Naxos,  Il Trittico, Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nixon in China, The Queen of Spades,  the complete Ring Cycle, and The Magic Flute.   Other recent opera engagements have included the title role in the American premiere of Henze’s Phaedra and  the title role in The Rape of Lucretia at the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the title role in Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Opera,  Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, the title role in The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival; the title role in Carmen at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Principessa in Suor Angelica and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy; and the title role in La Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera. ... read full bio