Biography
Versatile singing actress Michelle Trainor is known for her “powerful, penetrating soprano” (Wall Street Journal) and as both a “comic genius” and “vocal treat” (Boston Globe). A graduate of the Boston Lyric Opera’s Emerging Artist program, Trainor has become “a favorite of the Boston opera scene,” (Schmopera) in productions of contemporary opera including The Handmaid’s Tale, Burke & Hare and Haroun and the Sea of Stories. In standard rep like Macbeth, Barber of Seville and Threepenny Opera, she was described by Berkshire Fine Arts as “an ebullient comedian” who steals “every scene she is in with her pure joie de vivre.” 2022 saw Michelle on the concert stage with a Diva, Diva, Divo concert in Nashua, NH, appearing in the summer concert series with Boston Lyric Opera and she returned to
Performance credits
Past performances 2011 — 2024
Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Shostakovich
Boston Symphony OrchestraAksinya (Aksinia)
View cast and crewBluebeard’s Castle | Four Songs, BartókMahler, A.
Boston Lyric OperaJudit (Judith)
View program, cast and crewOpera night at the BPL: the power of women’s voices, Various
Boston Lyric OperaSoprano
View cast and crewFeatured past performances
Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Shostakovich
Boston Symphony OrchestraAksinya (Aksinia)
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Bluebeard’s Castle | Four Songs, BartókMahler, A.
Boston Lyric OperaJudit (Judith)
View program, cast and crew
Opera night at the BPL: the power of women’s voices, Various
Boston Lyric OperaSoprano
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Biography
Versatile singing actress Michelle Trainor is known for her “powerful, penetrating soprano” (Wall Street Journal) and as both a “comic genius” and “vocal treat” (Boston Globe). A graduate of the Boston Lyric Opera’s Emerging Artist program, Trainor has become “a favorite of the Boston opera scene,” (Schmopera) in productions of contemporary opera including The Handmaid’s Tale, Burke & Hare and Haroun and the Sea of Stories. In standard rep like Macbeth, Barber of Seville and Threepenny Opera, she was described by Berkshire Fine Arts as “an ebullient comedian” who steals “every scene she is in with her pure joie de vivre.” 2022 saw Michelle on the concert stage with a Diva, Diva, Divo concert in Nashua, NH, appearing in the summer concert series with Boston Lyric Opera and she returned to
