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Stacey Trenteseaux
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Stacey Trenteseaux, is a performer and entrepreneur currently based in Boise, ID. Her passion is helping people discover, embrace, and express themselves and their “why” with imagination, wisdom, creativity, and authenticity. She is currently the newly appointed General Director for Opera Idaho and has served as Executive Director of Opera Mississippi from 2021-2023 and previously as an Arts Organization Consultant. She is a professional singer; and a performance coach, consultant, teacher, and mentor for young and professional artists and businesspeople. With roots in both the creative and business worlds, Stacey’s personal vision is to see artists and entrepreneurs share business savvy and creativity to empower each other, incite change, bring balance, and activate more joy in their respective industries. 

Stacey regularly curates and performs classical and jazz concerts in Jackson, Natchez, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Upcoming performances include intimate concerts for local individuals, businesses and organizations in the Jackson-metro area; Handel's Messiah (November 2022 in Natchez); Rosalinde in Opera Mississippi’s Die Fledermaus (April 2023 in Jackson at Thalia Mara Hall); and a concert of sacred American hymns and spirituals (June 2023 in Sarstedt, Germany). She has sung with Pasinger Fabrik in Munich, SemperZwei of the Dresden Semperoper, the Astoria Music Festival, Manhattan Opera Studio, VOICE Experience in Savanah, Cincinnati Conservatory Summer Music Program, Operafestival di Roma, and Opernfest Prague. Other operatic roles include Luisa in Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Juliette from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, Hanna in Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, Angelica in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, among others. 

Ms. Trenteseaux has presented music and entrepreneurship master classes or workshops at Jackson State University, Belhaven University, Ithaca College, the University of Utah and for other business and community organizations in the US and Germany. She earned a Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Florida and master’s in Voice Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi.