LINDSEY WEISSMAN, mezzo-soprano.
About Lindsey.
Originally from Latham, New York, mezzo-soprano Lindsey Weissman spends an exciting season in residence with the Boston University Opera Institute, singing Mother (Thumbprint, Sankaram), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), and Minskwoman (Flight). She also joins the Boston University Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, and de Falla's El amor brujo in concert. She spent the summer with Chautauqua Opera Company, where she premiered the roles of Ida in Ida by Lamplight and Vendetta in Sitcom. She also sang 2nd Tendril in Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, performed with orchestra for the first time and recorded for the Metropolitan Opera ahead of its premiere in the fall of 2026. She had previously joined Chautauqua Opera Company for their pre-season educational outreach tour with Chautauqua Opera-in-the-Schools as a Teaching Artist, giving 4th grade lessons in creating musical adaptations and performing in Joshua Borth’s children’s opera Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? as the Kid Who Cried Wolf. In the fall of 2025, Lindsey began her residency at the Boston University Opera Institute, working with Lynn Eustis, William Lumpkin, Allison Voth and Matthew Larson.
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Most recently, Lindsey performed numerous roles at the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston while pursuing her Master’s degree. Her credits include Jo March (Little Women), La Zia Principessa/Zita (Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Misses Hepworth (cover, workshop premier 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 (Cenerentola).
In 2024, Lindsey was hired as a pre-season recitalist with Opera in the Ozarks, after which she joined the company as an Emerging Artist, performing the roles of Elizabeth Proctor and Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible and L’enfant in L’enfant et les sortilèges. She also joined members of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas as a guest artist on a program of chamber music, performing Brahms’ Op. 91 for Alto and Viola. She received the Martha Mack award from the National Federation of Music Clubs for her work there.
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Lindsey graduated from the University of Houston in 2025 with an M.M. in Voice Performance and Pedagogy, studying under Melanie Sonnenberg, Kathleen Belcher, Jorge Parodi and Keith Chambers. She was fortunate to hold a full graduate assistantship during her time there, for which she taught all levels of undergraduate Music Theory and Aural Skills. She received her B.M. in Voice with an Outside Field in Theatre Arts and a minor in Jazz Studies from Ithaca College in 2020, studying under Dawn Pierce, Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices, Christopher Zemliauskas, Dann Coakwell and Caitlin Mathes. Past credits include Baba (The Medium), the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), La Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica), Tisbe (cover, La Cenerentola), and scenes as Lucretia (The Rape of Lucretia) and Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
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Previously, she was a young artist with the Ithaca College Opera Studio under Chuck Hudson, singing Arsace in scenes from Rossini’s Semiramide staged by candidates for certification in opera direction (2023). She took on the eccentric Ježibaba in DvoÅ™ak’s Rusalka at Utah Vocal Arts Academy in 2022, coaching Czech language diction with Timothy Cheek. In 2021, she was hired as a young artist by Opera Company of Middlebury, through which she performed scenes from Così fan tutte (Dorabella) and Suor Angelica (La Zia Principessa), and had the privilege of performing in the ensemble of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed masterpiece, The Maid of Orleans (sung in Russian).
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In the summer of 2023, Lindsey joined the voice faculty at the prestigious Summer Music Academy at Ithaca College, where she taught private lessons, masterclasses, and Mind/Body/Voice warm-up classes to gifted high school musicians. She also had the privilege to spend a year as the interim Head of Vocal Arts and Choir Director at South Seneca Middle and High School in upstate NY, where her musical aspirations were renewed and inspired by the joy and passion of her students. She continues to teach many of them in her flourishing private voice studio, which she teaches remotely.
Lindsey has an extensive background in dance, specifically ballet and Broadway jazz, for which she has performed and choreographed.
A multi-genre singer & dancer.
Lindsey is an opera singer, of course, but she is also an accomplished jazz musician. She is also delighted to bring her extensive ballet and Broadway jazz dance training to operatic and musical theatre stages.