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Noted for her gleaming vocalism (OPERA NEWS), mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum is an incredibly important artist of her generation. Visit site for latest news and upcoming performance dates.
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Noted for her gleaming vocalism (OPERA NEWS), mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum is an incredibly important artist of her generation.

Mezzo-Soprano Noted for her “commanding and dramatic presence” (Opera News), mezzosoprano Renée Tatum continues to garner recognition in the most demanding of operatic repertoire. In the 2022-23 season, Ms. Tatum returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Rigoletto, sings Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Palm Beach Opera, debuts her first Verdi Requiem with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra and MIT, sings a recital with pianist Eileen Downey and the Needham Concert Society, Mozart’s Missa Brevis and Vesperae solennes de confessore with the Masterworks Chorale, Maddalena in Rigoletto with The Rochester Philharmonic and ends the season as the soloist in a world premiere with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.  Future seasons include Flosshilde and Waltraute in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in concert with The Dallas Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem, Dame Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff and engagements with the Metropolitan Opera. Last season, Ms. Tatum made her Atlanta Opera debut as Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, followed by a recital with the Boston Artists Ensemble. Later in the season, she debuted Fricka in Das Rheingold with Nashville Opera and Margret in Wozzeck with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She also continued her long relationship with The Metropolitan Opera in their new production of Rigoletto and Ariadne auf Naxos. Ms. Tatum’s relationship with The Met spans 11 years and has included nearly 100 performances including Fenena in Nabucco, 3rd Lady and 2nd Lady in The Magic Flute, Emilia in Otello, Inez in Il Trovatore, Adonella in Francesca da Rimini, and Waltraute and Flosshilde in Robert LePage’s Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Upcoming Concerts

Boston Symphony Orchestra
at Tanglewood
Wagner, Götterdammerung, Act 3 (Flosshilde)
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Saturday, July 20th, 2024
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Knoxville Opera
Opera’s Greatest Hits: A Tribute to Robert Lyall
Sunday, September 22, 2024
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Dallas Symphony
Wagner, Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Flosshilde and Grimgerde)
Fabio Liusi, conductor
May 1, 2, 4, & 5; October 5 & 8, 2024
October 13, 15, 17, & 20, 2024
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Nashville Symphony
Mahler, Symphony No. 8
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
May 23 – 25, 2025
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  • Wagner, Das Rheingold (Nashville Opera, 2022)

    Renee Tatum (Fricka) and Lester Lynch (Wotan). Photo Credit: Anthony Popolo. The realm of the gods brought further luminaries with the introduction of mezzo-soprano Renee Tatum’s deliciously sung Fricka. Having put us on notice last November through her starry portrayal of Cornelia in The Atlanta......

  • Berg, Wozzeck (The Boston Symphony Orchestra, March 2022)

    Renée Tatum as Margret at Carnegie Hall Renée Tatum made a deliciously dishy Margret, savouring her Swabia song.Oberon’s Grove Margret, mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum brought mocking steel to her character’s bitchy Act 1 exchanges with Marie, while her pivotal third act reappearance was electrically charged.Jonathan Blumhofer, Boston Classical......

  • Handel, Giulio Cesare (The Atlanta Opera, 2021)

    Renee Tatum as Cornelia, Jasmine Habersham as Cleopatra and Elizabeth Sarian as Nireno. (Photography by Ken Howard) Renée Tatum summoned all attention with Cornelia’s initial aria, “Priva son d’ogni conforto” and mesmerized throughout the night with her splendid singing. Her duets with Sesto, sung by......

  • Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Philadelphia Orchestra, 2018)

    Renée Tatum was superb as Amahl’s mother, with fine diction and a rich mezzo sound. She brought out the human quality in the drama...

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Assistant Professor of Voice

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2022 to present

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