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A New Orleans native and a proud Grand Finals Winner of the 2021 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, mezzo-soprano  Emily Treigle  has been praised for her “supercharged,” “bewitching and impassioned” performances. She returns to Houston Grand Opera for the 2023/24 season, singing Meg Page (Falstaff) and Suzuki (Madama Butterfly) and covering Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni). She spent the summer as a Filene Artist with Wolf Trap Opera, where she displayed her “warm voice” and an “acting range [as] impressive as her vocal one” as Juno/Ino (Semele). She returns this summer as Despina (Così fan tutte). In her previous seasons at HGO, following her 3rd place win in HGO’s 33rd annual Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, Treigle has been seen as Flora (La traviata), Miss Violet (Another City- world premiere), Mère Jeanne (Dialogues of the Carmelites), and Gertrude (Romeo and Juliette). She also covered the roles of Herodias (Salome) and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro). She appeared at the Aspen Music Festival as a Fleming Artist in 2022 and at Wolf Trap Opera in 2021, where she covered Holst’s titular Savitri. Treigle pursued her M.M. at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she earned her B.M. degree in 2020. She is a proud 2024 Winner of the George and Nora London Foundation Competition. An undeniable legacy, her grandfather was world-renowned bass-baritone Norman Treigle.