Maire ThereseCarmack

American mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, Third Prize winner at the Operalia World Opera Competition, is acclaimed for her “deep mezzo and vibrant metallic timbre” (Opera News). A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, her 2026/27 season includes returns to Semperoper Dresden as La Baronessa di Champigny in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, Pittsburgh Opera as Maddalena in Rigoletto, and the Metropolitan Opera as Rosette in Manon, alongside Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Athens State Orchestra.

Recent highlights include her acclaimed Houston Grand Opera debut in Breaking the Waves, alongside debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Santa Fe Opera. Her repertoire includes Carmen, Eboli (Don Carlo), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Fenena (Nabucco), Maddalena (Rigoletto) and Dorabella (Così fan tutte). A committed interpreter of contemporary opera, she has premiered works including The Sun Palace, M. Butterfly 蝴蝶君 and Bärin*. Concert highlights include Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Maire Therese is the winner of the Björn Eklund Scholarship from The Opera Foundation, first prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition, winner of Opera Index's Felix Popper Award, two-time grant recipient from The Olga Forrai Foundation for Dramatic Voices, and second prize winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. Maire Therese holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance and Literature (with honors) from the Eastman School of Music, as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Philosophy and Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.