Mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford has earned recognition as one of today’s most versatile and dynamic American vocal artists. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, she made her Met debut as Laura in Luisa Miller at age 25 and has since appeared in 215 performances with the company. Most notable Met appearances include L’Amour de loin, Anna Bolena, Rigoletto, Ariadne auf Naxos, Wozzeck, The Magic Flute, and Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle, which have all been included in The Met: LIVE in HD cinema broadcasts around the world.
Ms. Mumford makes a host of anticipated orchestral appearances during the 2026-2027 season. She sings Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Fabio Luisi, and Mahler’s 3rd Symphony with the Saint Louis Symphony and Stéphane Denève, as well as with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony, in his final Symphony Hall performance as Music Director. The season also includes Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the New World and North Carolina Symphonies, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Jaap van Zweden and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and his Christmas Oratorio with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as Erda/Flosshilde in Das Rheingold with Markus Stenz and the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra.
The previous season, Tamara Mumford made her Vienna Philharmonic debut singing Mahler’s 8th Symphony under the baton of Andris Nelsons, as well as her Waltraute debut in Götterdämmerung with The Atlanta Opera, also singing 1st Norn. During the summer, she performed Bernstein’s ‘Jeremiah’ Symphony with the Aspen Music Festival and Robert Spano, and was the mezzo-soprano soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl.
Tamara has toured Asia with Dudamel and the Berlin Philharmonic, toured Spain with the Münich Philharmonic and performed with Jaap van Zweden at the Hong Kong Philharmonic and The Seoul Philharmonic. Ms. Mumford has also performed with the Philharmonic of Jalisco at the International Festival Cervantino and The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Amsterdam. With both the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra, she gave acclaimed Ring Cycle performances as Erda. She has appeared with all major orchestras across the U.S., including the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Utah Symphony. A devoted interpreter of Mahler, Ms. Mumford has become a top choice for orchestras in Mahler’s 2nd, 3rd and 8th symphonies, Das Lied von Der Erde, Rückert-lieder, and Kindertöten-leider.
Ms. Mumford’s operatic reach extends from early music to contemporary premieres. She earned high praise for her Ottavia in L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and at the BBC Proms, and the title roles in Dido and Aeneas at the Glimmerglass Festival, Tancredi at Teatro Nuovo, L’Italiana in Algeri at the Palm Beach Opera, The Rape of Lucretia, conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival; Carmen at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Principessa in Suor Angelica and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano in Italy. World Premiere performances include Siddhartha, She at the Aspen Music Festival, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird at Opera Philadelphia, The Thirteenth Child at Santa Fe Opera, and tours of the US and Europe in John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Tamara Mumford has appeared on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of Mahler’s 8th Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon), which won the 2022 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance. Other recordings include Wagner's Ring Cycle with the Dallas Symphony (Erda and First Norn), Handel's Messiah with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Beethoven's Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (Avie), and John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). She was one of sixteen singers invited to work with Naxos Records and Yale University in a collaborative project to record the complete songs of Charles Ives.
A native of Sandy, Utah, Ms. Mumford now makes her home in Connecticut with her husband Nathan and two children Brian and Claire.
