Tess Altiveros | soprano

Praised as "enthralling" by the Seattle Times, and hailed for an “assured, glamorous soprano” (Opera Today), Tess Altiveros is equally at home in a wide range of repertoire from the 17th century to the 21st . 

Most recently, Ms. Altiveros appeared as Susanna in Opera Idaho’s Le nozze di Figaro, Soldier in The Falling and the Rising with Des Moines Metro Opera, Arizona Opera, Intermountain Opera and Opera Memphis, as well as a return to her home company Seattle Opera for L’Elisir d’Amore and the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns. Recent concert engagements include Messiah with Boise Phil, Mozart Mass in C Minor with Seattle Pro Musica, Chansons d’Auvergnewith WestSound Symphony, Mozart Requiem with Evansville Philharmonic, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque, and the U.S. premiere of Ripper’s Cinco Poemas de Vinicius de Moraes with the Seattle Symphony.

Other credits include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Intermountain Opera, Kentucky Opera), Soldier in The Falling and the Rising (Seattle Opera), Angela in In Real Life (Opera Memphis), Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte (Skylark Opera), E in O+E (Seattle Opera), Euridice/Proserpine in L’Orfeo (Pacific MusicWorks), Clorinda in Seattle Opera's acclaimed production of The Combat, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte (Pacific Symphony), Maria in West Side Story (Central City Opera/Boulder Philharmonic), Musetta in La Bohème with Mo. Andrew Litton (Colorado Symphony), Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw (Eugene Opera), and Elle in La Voix Humaine (Vespertine Opera).  

On the concert stage, her voice has been hailed as “darker, creamy, sensuous…sprezzatura personified” (Opera Today) and “pure gold” (Opera Magazine). Engagements have ranged from the American Prize-winning world premiere of Muehleisen’s Borders at Carnegie Hall to the critically acclaimed West Coast tour of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Grammy winning conductor Stephen Stubbs.  Ms. Altiveros has been featured with the Colorado Symphony, Pacific Symphony, the Boulder Philharmonic, Portland Baroque, Early Music Vancouver, Shreveport Symphony, San Francisco Early Music Society and the Vancouver Bach Festival.

A native Seattleite, Ms. Altiveros is proud to be a regular singer for all her hometown teams, including the Seattle Mariners, OL Reign, Seattle Kraken, and the Seattle Sounders.