Performance Year: 2026
American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, whom Opera News described as possessing a “beautiful lyric tenor voice,” pairs passionate performance with a full, sweet sound. In the 2025-2026 season, Mr. Chin-Loy makes two role debuts, first as Rodolfo in La bohème with Madison Opera and later as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly with Arizona Opera. Elsewhere, he will headline Bozeman Symphony’s Christmas program. In the 2024-2025 season, Mr. Chin-Loy made his European debut singing Gualtiero in Vivaldi’s Griselda with the Danish National Opera, returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Cop 1 in Blue, sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Virginia Opera, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Opera Omaha and in concert, and Graf Albert in Die tote Stadt with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Future debuts include Santa Fe Opera and The Dallas Opera.
Highlights of recent seasons include Mr. Chin-Loy’s solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan; Don José in Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center; Pang in Turandot with LA Opera; Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Victor Frankenstein the world premiere of Frankenstein, Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music, and Ferrando in Così fan tutte (all with Arizona Opera); the tenor solos in Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road with Virginia Opera; and Benny Paret Jr. in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Champion. In concert, Terrence performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall, Haydn’s Creation with the Lubbock Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the North Carolina Symphony, and Hailstork’s I Will Life Mine Eyes with the Boise Philharmonic.
Terrence is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a Performance Diploma. He also holds degrees from Mannes College and Yale University. While at Mannes, he received the Michael Sisca Opera Award, the school’s top prize for an opera singer. Additonally, his studies at Yale concentrated on Music Theory and Musicology. While at Yale, Terrence was also a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, with which he performed major roles in La Calisto, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Scipione affricano. He is a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.
