Repertoire and additional performers to be announced

About the Artists

Tichina Vaughn is associate professor of music in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A Grammy Award-winning American mezzo-soprano, celebrated for her “superb, rich singing” and serious “theatrical presence,” Vaughn began her international operatic career as a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program. Recent successes have included her debut at the Welsh National Opera as Zia Principessa and Zita (Il Trittico), her Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut as the Witch (Hansel and Gretel), Azucena (Il Trovatore) for Piedmont Opera, as well as returning to the Metropolitan Opera as the Hostess of the Inn (Boris Gudonow), and roles in Dialogues de Carmélites, Elektra, and Porgy and Bess. Upcoming engagements include her return to the Semperoper as the Old Lady in Candide, mezzo soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and Maria in Porgy and Bess with the Metropolitan Opera. Further international engagements have included appearances with Alan Gilbert at the Lucerne Festival in Porgy and Bess and her debut at the Opéra National de Lyon as Old Lady (Candide). In North America, Vaughn recently appeared as Amneris (Aida) at Fort Worth Opera and Cincinnati Opera and made her Opera Theatre of Saint Louis debut as Monisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha. From 2010 to 2018 she was an ensemble member at the Semperoper Dresden, where she was heard as Herodias (Salome), Azucena (Il Trovatore), Venus (Tannhäuser), Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera), and Ortrud (Lohengrin), among others. From 1996 to 2006 she was a principal artist at the Stuttgart State Opera, where she was awarded the title of Kammersängerin for her successes in such roles as Eboli (Don Carlo), Widow Begbick (Mahagonny), Venus (Tannhäuser), Giulietta (Tales of Hoffmann), Arnalta (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Fricka (Die Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), and Erda (Siegfried and Das Rheingold). Her discography includes the Grammy-winning Metropolitan Opera recording of Porgy and Bess, Stuttgart State Theater’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and her solo CD, Christmas at My House.