TAYLOR SEE, SOPRANO

Taylor See, a native of Las Vegas, NV, is recognized as a Western Region Special Encouragement Award Winner and a San Francisco District Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2022), the first place winner of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) Concerto Competition (2022), and a finalist in the James Toland Vocal Arts Voice Competition (2020) and Classical Singer Voice Competition (2020).

Taylor was an apprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera (2023), a resident artist with Shreveport Opera (2023/24), and she is an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Young Artists Vocal Academy (2021). 

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Taylor has sung the roles of Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at SFCM (2022), Euridice (cover) in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo with Santa Fe Opera (2023), Second Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Santa Rosa Symphony (2023), Dot in Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig at SFCM (2022), Adelaide Mills/Ms Thompson/Helen Mills in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House without a Christmas Tree with Opera Las Vegas (2021), Contessa Almaviva in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at SFCM (2019), Lucy in Menotti’s The Telephone with Vegas City Opera (2021), Bellangère in Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-bleue with West Edge Opera (2022) and Sister Felicity and Sister Valentine (cover) in Dialogues of the Carmélites with San Francisco Opera (2022), Fiordiligi (cover) with Shreveport Opera (2024), Valencienne in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow with Utah Valley OperaFest (2017), Lucy Brown in Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera at SFCM (2018), Vixen (cover) in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen with Opera Steamboat (2018), and more. 

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Taylor was the soprano soloist in Faure’s Requiem at SFCM (2019), the soprano soloist for "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" with the SFCM Orchestra (2023). She was a featured soprano with Shreveport Symphony Orchestra in A Diamond Jubilee Concert for Shreveport Opera’s 75th Anniversary. She also sang the role of Catharina Bach in a new musical, That Week with the Bachs at the Spacious Grace Festival at Grace Cathedral (2023). 

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Taylor is a recent graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), earning her Bachelor of Music (2020) and Master of Music in (2023) in voice, under the tutelage of Deborah Voigt and César Ulloa. She will be pursuing her DMA (doctorate of musical arts) in voice in Fall 2024 at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, under the tutelage of Monica McCoullough.