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ENGAGEMENTS

recent & upcoming

2025/26 HIGHLIGHTS.

meghan enjoys a busy season debuting the role of arminda (la finta giardiniera), returning to the dallas opera in don carlo and the dallas symphony orchestra for mahler's 8th symphony, directing a contemporary work with opera saratoga, and premiering a new opera with chicago opera theater.

Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña en el mundo

director | opera saratoga | 2025

La finta giardiniera

arminda | arizona opera | march 2025

"That Time of Evening" Album Release Concert
with Dror Baitel, pianist

st. james lutheran church, chicago | june 29, 2025 

 

Collaborative Works Festival Recital

collaborative arts institute of chicago | ganz hall, chicago | september 4, 2025

 

Workshop: Trusted (working title)

younger daughter | chicago opera theater | september 21, 2025

“That Time of Evening”

debut album | Dror Baitel, pianist | antic. 2025

 

Don Carlo

una voce dal cielo & elisabetta (cover) | dallas opera | march 2026

Mahler's 8th Symphony

soprano 2 soloist | dallas symphony orchestra | cond. fabio luisi | may 2026

Trusted (working title) - world premiere

younger daughter | chicago opera theater | may 30, 2026

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OUTSTANDING... PASSIONATE AND INTEGRATED WITH THE ORCHESTRAL SOUND.

"Tenor Richard Trey Smagur, as Siegmund, and soprano Meghan Kasanders, as his twin sister/lover Sieglinde, have outstanding sequences in the first act in which their singing not only expressed their passion but became integrated with the orchestral sound in the way that is a Wagner specialty."

dc theatre scene
sieglinde | die walküre | virginia opera

PAST HIGHLIGHTS

opera:

Die Walküre | Sieglinde | Virginia Opera

Journey to Valhalla | Sieglinde in Act 1 Die Walküre | Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Die Walküre | Sieglinde (cover) | San Diego Symphony

The Consul | Magda Sorel | Opera Saratoga

Anna Bolena | Anna Bolena | Baltimore Concert Opera

Elektra | Fifth Maid | Dallas Opera

Hänsel und Gretel | Gertrud | Stattsoper Hannover

The Magic Flute | First Lady | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Don Giovanni | Donna Anna | Opera Columbus

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concert:

Bernstein's SongFest | Carnegie Hall with Marin Alsop

Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln | Dallas Symphony with Fabio Luisi

Luonnotar | Alice Tully Hall with Barbara Hannigan

Mozart Requiem | Erie Philharmonic

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 | Lubbock Symphony Orchestra

Mendolssohn's Elijah | The Juilliard School

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awards: 

Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition | First Place & Audience Choice 

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions | Grand Finalist 

Opera Birmingham Vocal Competition | Second Place & Audience Choice

Mildred Miller Int'l Voice Competition | First Place

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