Praised by OperaWire for "a power and seeming effortlessness that [is] quite amazing...", Margaret Tigue is a soprano currently based in Boston and New York. Her next project will be the role of Eliza in Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters with the Boston University Opera Institute in October 2024. Margaret’s ‘23/’24 season included performances as Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito) and Cendrillon (Cendrillon) with the Boston University Opera Institute, where she is currently in residence. This spring, Margaret appeared with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester as the soprano soloist in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, followed by a concert showcasing repertoire from the Great American Songbook. In the summer of 2023, Margaret was a fellow of the Lehrer Vocal Institute at Music Academy. While there, she covered the role of Mimì in their production of La Bohème. Margaret is also a two-time fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center.

Margaret has been a featured soloist with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Her previous opera credits include the roles of Helena in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmélites. She is a 2024 winner of the Boston district of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competiton, and a New England Regional Finalist. She won second prize in MassOpera’s 2022 Vocal Competition, and in 2017 she won an Encouragement Award in the Michigan district of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Margaret earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and her Master’s Degree from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program. She currently studies with Penelope Bitzas.