Maire ThereseCarmack

American mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, Third Prize winner at the 2022 Operalia World Opera Competition, has been praised by Opera News for her "deep mezzo and vibrant metallic timbre" and for "taking focus by her very presence".

Maire Therese's 2024-25 season includes house debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Rigoletto (Giovanna/Maddalena cover) and Houston Grand Opera in Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves (Dodo McNeill). She will also return to The Metropolitan Opera for The Magic Flute - Holiday Presentation (Second Lady). In concert, Maire Therese makes debuts with the Santa Fe Symphony as Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, the Oregon Bach Festival and San Antonio Philharmonic as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No.9, with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, and with UF Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.

Maire Therese joined The Metropolitan Opera for the 2023-24 season as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. She covered Fenena in Nabucco, made her debut in The Magic Flute (Second Lady), and was featured in Madama Butterfly (Kate Pinkerton). She also made her San Franscisco Opera debut in Die Zauberflöte (Dritte Dame) and returned to Deutsche Oper Berlin to reprise Der Missmut in Rued Langgaard's rarely performed Antikrist which will be released on DVD in a collaboration with NAXOS.

Previous highlights include Maire Therese's European debut with  Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she opened the season in the title role of  Carmen  as part of the company's Cultural Summer Festival, Don Quichotte (Dulcinée), Rigoletto  (Giovanna/Maddalena), Lucia di Lammermoor  (Alisa),  and  Antikrist  (Der Missmut). She also had debuts with  Santa Fe Opera  as a member of the Apprentice Artist Program, singing Mercédès in  Carmen  and performing as a soloist in the world premiere of David Henry Hwang and Huang Ruo's M. Butterfly 蝴蝶君, with  Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and with the  Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra as alto soloist in Bach’s  Matthäus-Passion  under the baton of Christoph Koncz.

Maire Therese is an alum of the  Palm Beach Opera  Bailey Apprentice Artist Program, the  Glimmerglass Festival  Young Artists Program, the  Santa Fe Opera  Apprentice Program for Singers, and the  Pittsburgh Opera  Resident Artist Program. She is the winner of the Björn Eklund Scholarship from The Opera Foundation (2022), first prize winner of the  Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition (2023), winner of  Opera Index's Felix Popper Award (2023), two-time grant recipient from The Olga Forrai Foundation for Dramatic Voices  (2023/2024), and second prize winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition (2024). 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 (summa cum laude) from the  University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.