Megan Pachecano

Praised for her “lucid soprano” (The New York Times), Megan Pachecano has performed on such stages as Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera, under the batons of Conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gustavo Dudamel, and other illustrious artists. She brings a “shimmering lyric soprano” (Opera News Magazine) to rare roles such as Beatriz in Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini with Chicago Opera Theater, an Emmy®-nominated production, and the title role of Lady Jane Grey in the World Premiere performance and commercial recording of Rosner’s The Chronicle of Nine: The Tragedy of Queen Jane with Grammy-winning ensembles Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Other treasured experiences include a live broadcast performance on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) as Valencienne (The Merry Widow) with Musica Viva Hong Kong, and many productions with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Gastcor der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Some favorite roles have been Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Norina (Don Pasquale), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Cunegonde (Candide), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Frasquita (Carmen), Anne Page (Sir John in Love), Farinelli’s Trainer (Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera), Younger Alyce (Glory Denied), and Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos).

 

A frequent concert soloist, Pachecano has performed in six Handel oratorios and made her Lincoln Center solo debut at Alice Tully Hall with an excerpt from Judas Maccabaeus. She regularly sings the Soprano solos in Handel's Messiah, including recent and upcoming performances right here at the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. She has also performed the solos in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass, Requiem, and Exsultate, jubilate, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Little Organ Mass, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, Beethoven’s Die Ruinen von Athen, and Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, singing with orchestras around the United States. She was a soloist on the Naxos recording American Choral Music and recently performed in the Univision Television Network’s “Serenata a la Virgen de Guadalupe” Live Broadcast.

Pachecano serves on the Board of Directors for several non-profit music organizations, is a proud union member of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and a GRAMMY-voting member of the Recording Academy, serving on the Classical Membership Committee working to build a more diverse and representative voting body.