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GRAMMY® nominated soprano Maggie Finnegan has been hailed by Opera News for her “bright coloratura” and “finely tuned high soprano” and The Washington Post for her “silvery, pitch-perfect voice.” This season Ms. Finnegan makes her Carnegie Hall debut singing Mozart and Vivaldi and performs with Brooklyn Art Song Society, White Snake Projects (three world premiere operas), Providence Singers, Teatro Grattacielo, The Boston Ballet, Portsmouth Pro Musica and more. Last season included projects with Odyssey Opera (Adamo’s Lysistrata), Boston Lyric Opera (The Seasons world premiere), Brooklyn Art Song Society, The Little Orchestra Society (Family Friendly Magic Flute), Portsmouth Pro Musica (Carmina Burana) and Pioneer Valley Symphony (Carmina Burana). She performed Tod Machover's sci-fi opera VALIS with the MIT Media Lab, Little Stone in Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera, Virginia Poe in Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe with Odyssey Opera, Sandström’s A Messiah for Our Time with the New England Philharmonic, Webern's Op.25 with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and made her Canadian debut in Haydn's The Creation with the Vancouver Symphony.

Career highlights include the Queen of the Night with Mass Opera and On Site Opera, Danica in Boston Lyric Opera’s film of Ana Sokolović’s Svadba, Anya in the world premiere film of Everything For Dawn (Experiments in Opera), Sophia in the West Coast premiere of Lembit Beecher’s opera Sophia’s Forest with Opera Parallèle, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Belgian National Orchestra, Louis Andriessen's Odysseus' Women / Anaïs Nin (Center for Contemporary Opera, Andriessenfest at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ) and a world premiere duo recital with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe with Sparks and Wiry Cries.

Awards include the S&R Foundation's 2017 Washington Award, First Place and Audience Favorite in the Washington International Competition for Voice and second place in The American Prize for Women in Opera. Specializing in new music, she has sung premieres with White Snake Projects, Experiments in Opera, Opera Parallèle, Catalyst New Music, the {Re}Happening Festival, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, The American Chamber Opera Company, Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble, Vital Opera, Sparks & Wiry Cries SongSLAM and the Center for Contemporary Opera. She performed in The Sound of Music with Paper Mill Playhouse, The Metropolitan Opera Guild's School Touring Program, Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and sang as a soloist in the revival of the play Extraordinary Measures with Tony Award-winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler.

An avid concert performer and recitalist, Maggie made her international concert debut at the PyeongChang Winter Music Festival in South Korea. Recent concert performances include a solo recital at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, performances with Beth Morrison Projects, the Avanti Orchestra, the Capital Fringe Festival Chamber Series, The New Dominion Chorale, the City Choir of Washington, Boston Lyric Opera Signature Series, the Handel and Haydn Society and the Halcyon Stage in Washington, DC.

Originally from California’s Central Coast, Maggie holds a Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory. She honed her opera improvisation skills at the Opera Works Advanced Artist Program in Los Angeles. She currently splits her time between New York City and Boston, where she shares a home with her partner, three step-children and her pet snakes, Henry Jones Jr., Sallah and Walter.