Tamara Mumford

Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano, returned this season to the Metropolitan Opera as Smeaton in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, reprised her role in Daniel Schnyder’s Yardbird at the famed Apollo Theater in New York, toured the U.S. and Europe with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and made her debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. This summer she returns to the Caramoor Festival, and next season returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Kaija Sariaaho's L’Amour de loin. She also makes her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and returns to the New York Philharmonic and San Francisco and Boston symphony orchestras. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program, Ms. Mumford has appeared in more than 140 performances with the company, as well as with Dallas Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and the BBC Proms. In concert, she has performed with the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, San Francisco, Dallas, and Milwaukee symphony orchestras, Hollywood Bowl, and Ravinia, Tanglewood, Grand Teton, Vail, and La Jolla Summer Music festivals. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 in the Richard Goode and Friends concert series, and has been presented in recital by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.