Soprano Alicia Russell Tagert has been singing throughout the United States since 2013, making her debut performance in her hometown with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. This season, she makes her Charlotte Symphony debut as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and with Cincinnati Opera as Morgan in Fierce. Her recent credits include Musetta in La bohème, Sylvie Davenport in Freedom Ride, Frasquita in Carmen, Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Savitri in Savitri, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Pamina inDie Zauberflöte. She was scheduled to debut in 2020 with Chicago Lyric Unlimited in Blue, which was rescheduled due to COVID-19. On the concert stage, she performed as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra (virtual), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Highland Park Symphony Orchestra (COVID-19 cancellation), Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra), and a recitalist with various national organizations. Past sacred music solo performances include Handel’s Laudate Pueri Dominium and Utrecht Te Deum, Honneger’s King David, and Mozart’s Requiem and Missa in C Minor.

A competitive force, Alicia Tagert is a four-time award winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in South Carolina (2022), Georgia (2021), North Carolina (2020), and Tennessee (2019). She was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Orpheus Vocal Competition, winner of the 2018 Northwestern University Concerto/Aria Competition and received the Ginger Meyer Scholarship in the 2018 Musicians Club of Women Competition. She holds a Master of Music from Northwestern University and Bachelor of Music from Furman University.