Originally from Latham, New York, mezzo-soprano Lindsey Weissman spends a second consecutive season with Chautauqua Opera Company, workshopping and premiering numerous new works, giving two recitals, and touring as Rosina in a children’s version of The Barber of Seville. 

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In residence with the Boston University Opera Institute for the 2025/26 season, Lindsey performed the roles of Mother (Thumbprint, Sankaram), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), and Minskwoman (Flight). Most recently, she performed as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Symphony Hall in Boston. She is honored to perform Elgar’s cornerstone work for alto and orchestra, Sea Pictures, Op. 37 in October of 2026, after being named a winner of the 2025 Soloist’s Competition at BU. She was also named a winner in voice at the Naftzger National Young Artist Awards in March.

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This past season, Lindsey joined the BU Chamber Orchestra as the soloist for De Falla’s El amor brujo, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Next Generation concert. In the summer of 2025, she was a Studio Artist with Chautauqua Opera Company, where she premiered the roles of Ida in Ida by Lamplight and Vendetta in Sitcom, toured with Chautauqua Opera-in-the-Schools as the Kid Who Cried Wolf in Who’s Afraid of the Big, BadWolf? and sang Tendril in the orchestral workshop of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, recorded for the Metropolitan Opera ahead of its premiere there in the fall of 2026. She had also previously participated in their educational outreach tour as a Teaching Artist, giving 4th grade lessons in creating musical adaptations and performing the music of Mozart in Joshua Borth’s children’s opera Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

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A recent graduate of the University of Houston, her roles at Moores Opera Center included Jo March (Little Women), La Zia Principessa/Zita (Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Misses Hepworth (cover, workshop of Tom Cipullo’s Hobson’s Choice), Sylviane (The Merry Widow), and Maman/La tasse Chinoise (L’enfant et les sortilèges), and scenes as Angelina (La Cenerentola).