This past season, up and coming mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford returned to the Metropolitan Opera for their productions of War and Peace and Manon Lescaut and made her debuts at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms as Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea.  Next season returns to the Met for the Ring Cycle and Rigoletto, and makes her debut at the Opera Company of Philadelphia as the title role in The Rape of Lucretia ... read full bio

This past season, up and coming mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford returned to the Metropolitan Opera for their productions of War and Peace and Manon Lescaut and made her debuts at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms as Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea.  Next season returns to the Met for the Ring Cycle and Rigoletto, and makes her debut at the Opera Company of Philadelphia as the title role in The Rape of Lucretia.

A recent 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 in their productions of Parsifal, Idomeneo, Cavalleria Rusticana, and the new children's English version of The Magic Flute (which was broadcast live in HD in movie theaters around the world).   Other recent opera engagements have included Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, the title role in The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel and produced by his Chateauville Foundation; 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.

Also an active concert performer and recitalist, Ms. Mumford will make her debut at the La Jolla Music Festival this summer, and next season will be presented in recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She most recently appeared in recital with Ken Noda at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and with James Levine and the Met Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Harbison's Mottetti di Montale.  Ms. Mumford has also developed a strong relationship with the Musicians from Marlboro. She first appeared in their music festival in the summer of 2006, and has since returned to their summer festivals and toured with them during the fall season.  Other past concert appearances have included her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 as part of the Richard Goode and friends concert series in Zankel Hall, an appearance at the Manchester Music Festival, and a solo recital at the Nantucket Musical Arts Society. 

In 2005 Ms. Mumford was one of sixteen singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives. 

A native of Sandy, Utah, Ms. Mumford holds a Bachelors of Music from Utah State University.  Her many awards include the Arthur E. Walters Memorial Award in the 2005 Opera Index Competition, second place in the advanced division in the 2005 Palm Beach Opera Competition, and awards in the 2005 Sullivan Foundation Competition, the 2005 Connecticut Opera Guild Competition and the 2004 Joyce Dutka Foundation Competition.  Ms. Mumford was also a Mathias Winner and PBS Concert Soloist for the 2001 MacAllister Awards.