LAURA MCHUGH
SUBJECT 41
WORLD PREMIERE
Featured Vocalist
Lam Dance Works
MAY 2026
Emerson Paramount Center | Boston, MA
FORWARD propels dance beyond its limits, amplifying the voices of visionary choreographers who are redefining the art form. Featuring three world premieres and three Boston premieres, this performance marks a powerful evolution of intimate works designed to ignite, challenge, and transform the way you experience art. Drawing artists from across the globe, FORWARD channels vitality, curiosity, and fearless innovation into a dynamic landscape of contemporary dance.
Laura performs in the World Premiere of Yury Yanowsky's Subject 41 as the featured vocalist, with ballet dancer and Lam Dance Works founder John Lam.
BRAHMS EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Soprano Soloist
Concord Chorale
MAY 2026
St. Paul's Church | Concord, NH
Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), as contrasted to other Requiem masses, presents no doctrine. Instead it is a work of consolation, offering hope and solace without suggesting judgment or terror. It is also performed in German as opposed to the traditional Latin. Laura performs as the soprano soloist with Concord Chorale. Concord Chorale Music Director Jenny Cooper conducts.
VOICE MASTERCLASS
Presenter
Brookline Music School
APRIL 2026
Brookline Music School | Brookline, MA
For this masterclass, Laura will coach Brookline Music School singers on lyrical and character analysis, helping them unlock and execute intentional and creative musical, emotional, and physical expression within performance.
THE LAST SAVAGE
Concert Singer
Odyssey Opera/
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
MARCH 2026
Huntington Theatre | Boston, MA
Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project collaborate on a fully staged production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Last Savage at Huntington Avenue Theatre. The three act opera buffa's eclectic score and unexpected libretto delightfully subvert convention through Mozartian comic tropes. Set in a satirical vision of mid-20th-century society, Menotti's witty libretto skewers cultural pretensions, consumerism, and the clash between tradition and progress, while his score blends lyrical arias, jazzy rhythms, and a pastiche of operatic conventions. The result is a playful yet biting comedy that asks whether civilization itself is the true masquerade.
Laura portrays the Concert Singer and sings on the upcoming cast recording.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mrs. Fezziwig
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
DECEMBER 2025
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre | Boston, MA
Step into the magic of Victorian England and rediscover the heart and soul of the holiday season! Commonwealth Shakespeare Company returns for another magical season at Boston's historic Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre with its stunning production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" - a timeless story of redemption, generosity, and the power of human kindness. Described as "a musical feast" (The Boston Globe), it is brimming with traditional 19th-century carols. This "heart-filled new tradition" (WGBH) is sure to delight audiences of all ages.
POPS CONCERT
Soloist
Eleva Chamber Players/
Moose Meadow Lodge
AUGUST 2025
Moose Meadow Lodge | Duxbury, VT
Join Laura McHugh, soprano & James Myers, piano in this concert celebrating female artists from country, musical theater, pop, light classical, and comedy in beautiful Vermont. Enjoy hits by Dolly Parton, Carole King, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and more!
BRAHMS EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Soprano Soloist
Masterworks Chorale
JULY 2025
Grace Chapel | Lexington, MA
Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), as contrasted to other Requiem masses, presents no doctrine. Instead it is a work of consolation, offering hope and solace without suggesting judgment or terror. It is also performed in German as opposed to the traditional Latin. Laura performs as the soprano soloist with Masterworks Chorale. Masterworks Chorale Music Director Kevin Leong conducts.
AH! PERFIDO
Concert aria by Ludwig van Beethoven
Providence Fringe Festival/
Anchor Opera
JULY 2025
Willbury Theatre Group| Providence, RI
Beethoven's Ah! perfido, a dramatic scene for soprano, is a monologue for a woman who has been deserted by her lover. In its recitative and aria, she vacillates between asking the gods to punish her lover and wanting them to show him mercy. Laura performs this scena as part of The Stronger for the Providence Fringe Festival.
FAURÉ REQUIEM
Soprano Soloist
Masterworks Chorale
JUNE 2025
Grace Chapel | Lexington, MA
The best-known of Fauré's large works, the composer himself said "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." As the soprano soloist, Laura sings the timeless Pie Jesu. Masterworks Chorale Music Director Kevin Leong conducts.
SWEENEY TODD
Beggar Woman
Opera51
JUNE 2025
51 Walden | Concord, MA
Based on Christopher Bond's retelling of the Victorian pennydreadful The String of Pearls, (which was itself a retelling of a British myth, possibly rooted in truth) this musical (with a book by Hugh Wheeler) tells the tale of Sweeney Todd, a murderous barber, and his partner in crime, Nellie Lovett, a baker who disposes of the bodies by baking them into her pies. Meanwhile, Anthony Hope, a sailor who saved Todd's life, falls in love with Todd's estranged daughter, Johanna, who is being brought up as the ward of the twisted Judge Turpin. Laura appears as the mysterious Beggar Woman.
INTERPRETATIONS OF MUSIC
Singer
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library Central Branch | Boston, MA USA
Witness Boston's brightest young performers delve into the most inspiring aspects of music-making as conductor and renowned educator Benjamin Zander brings his musical interpretation expertise to an intimate and dynamic workshop setting. Laura performs "Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém" (Song to the Moon) from A. Dvořák's Rusalka, and "Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen" from R. Schumann's Dichterliebe, with James Myers at the piano.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mrs. Fezziwig
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
DECEMBER 2025
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre | Boston, MA
Journey back to Victorian England and experience Dickens' heart-warming classic story brought to brilliant life! Commonwealth Shakespeare Company brings a dazzling new production of Dickens' timeless tale to Boston's Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. Ebenezer Scrooge, the infamous miser, is shown the error of his ways and reframed by spirits in one transformative night, discovering the true meaning of the holiday season. In this spectacular adaptation of the iconic tale, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is infused with carols from Dickens' era in lush arrangements by Dianne Adams MacDowell (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder).
THE VOYAGE OF
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Mrs. Poe (cover)
Odyssey Opera/Boston Modern Orchestra Project
APRIL 2024
The Huntington Theatre | Boston, MA
Ill and feverish, Boston-born writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe - his creativity and inspiration in the doldrums after his wife Virginia's death two years prior - plans to sail to Baltimore on a "voyage of discovery". But is a ship scheduled to depart?
Laura covers Kirsten Chambers as Mrs. Poe, and sings on the cast recording.