Michelle Trainor, a Massachusetts native, has been called “spellbinding and intense”.  Opera News hailed that “Michelle Trainor gave one of the most satisfying performances of the evening.”  She most recently made her Boston Modern Orchestra Project debut singing Oneeta/Princess/Batcheat in Haroun and the Sea of Stories and sang the role of Ofglen in Boston Lyric Opera’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  She also debuted two other roles in the 2018-19 season beginning with a return engagement to Odyssey Opera singing the role of Benoni in Gounod's La Reine de Saba as well as Berta in The Barber of Seville with both Michigan Opera Theatre and Boston Lyric Opera.  Other recent highlights include the role of Mrs. Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, Jocasta in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Helen McDougal in the World Premiere of Julian Grant and Mark Campbell’s The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Ghita in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg.

Her recent concert work includes soprano soloist in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and she joined Boston Symphony Orchestra in their performance of Der Rosenkavalier. Next season Michelle will be singing the role of La Madre de Ignacio in the world premiere of En la ardiente oscuridad, a chamber opera written by Omar Najmi as well as the role of Miss Lightfoot in Fellow Travelers with Boston Lyric Opera.