Originally from Latham, New York, mezzo-soprano Lindsey Weissman spends an exciting season in residence with the Boston University Opera Institute, singing Mother (Thumbprint, Sankaram), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette), and Minskwoman (Flight). She also joins the Boston University Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, and de Falla's El amor brujo in concert. She spent the summer with Chautauqua Opera Company, where she premiered the roles of Ida in Ida by Lamplight and Vendetta in Sitcom. She also sang 2nd Tendril in Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, performed with orchestra for the first time and recorded for the Metropolitan Opera ahead of its premiere in the fall of 2026. She had previously joined Chautauqua Opera Company for their pre-season educational outreach tour with Chautauqua Opera-in-the-Schools as a Teaching Artist, giving 4th grade lessons in creating musical adaptations and performing in Joshua Borth’s children’s opera Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? as the Kid Who Cried Wolf. A recent graduate of the University of Houston, her roles at Moores Opera Center included  Jo March (Little Women), La Zia Principessa/Zita (Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Misses Hepworth (cover, workshop premier of Tom Cipullo’s Hobson’s Choice), Sylviane (The Merry Widow), and Maman/La tasse Chinoise (L’enfant et les sortilèges), and scenes as Angelina (Cenerentola).