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 solo Carnegie Hall Debut singing Mozart and Vivaldi, and performs with Brooklyn Art Song Society, White Snake Projects, Providence Singers, Portsmouth Pro Musica, The Boston Ballet, Teatro Grattacielo 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). In 2023-24, Maggie performed Linda Lampton in 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, the world premiere of Douglas Knehans’s To The Stars, Webern's Op.25 with the Brooklyn Art Song Society and she made her Canadian debut in Haydn's The Creation with 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 Sortileges with the Belgian National Orchestra, Louis Andriessien's Odysseus' Women / Anais 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/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 appearances 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. In 2020 she became a core member of Queens Voice Lab, an empowered community of and for professional singing artists sharing ideas, concerns, and actions in order to build mutual support and learning, further creative work, and amplify advocacy for artists’ rights and more humane, equitable practice and norms in the vocal arts at large.

Originally from California’s Central Coast, Maggie earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music, her Master of Music degree from Peabody Conservatory and 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-kids and her pet snakes Henry Jones Jr., Sallah and Walter.