Tamara Mumford
mezzo-soprano
About this Artist
A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford made her debut there as Laura in Luisa Miller, and has since appeared in more than 140 performances with the company, some of which include the Pilgrim in the new production of Kajia Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, 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, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Wozzeck.
Other recent opera engagements have included the world premiere of The Thirteenth Child at the Santa Fe Opera, her role debut as Tancredi with Teatro Nuovo, the first-ever American performances of Rossini's Aureliano in Palmira at the Caramoor Festival, L'Amour de loin at the Festival d'opéra de Québec, Iolante at the Dallas Opera, the title role in the American premiere of Henze’s Phaedra, the title role in The Rape of Lucretia, and the world premiere of Daniel Schnyder's Yardbird at Opera Philadelphia; the title role in Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Festival, Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and the BBC Proms, Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia at the Caramoor Festival, 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.
Mumford has appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s The Met: Live in HD series broadcasts of Anna Bolena, Das Rheingold, Gotterdämmerung, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Magic Flute, Nixon in China, Manon Lescaut, and Il Trittico. She also appears on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (Deutsche Grammophon), which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance. Other recordings include Handel’s Messiah with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Mormon Tabernacle Choir), Beethoven’s Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (Avie), and John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). She was one of 16 singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives.
This season, Mumford makes her role debut as Erda in Das Rheingold with both the LA Phil and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and appears in concert with the San Francisco Symphony, Boston Baroque, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and at the world-renowned Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico.
A native of Sandy, Utah, Mumford holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Utah State University and has received awards from the Opera Index Competition, Palm Beach Opera Competition, Sullivan Foundation, Connecticut Opera Guild Competition, Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Competition, and the MacAllister Awards.