2026 Sag Harbor Song Festival - Friday

Tickets
ON SALE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st at 12 PM

Individual Concert: $75

Festival Pass: $200

One ticket for all three concerts per pass

For more information about SHSF please visit sagharborsongfestival.org

ON SALE - August 1 @ 12 PM

The Church is delighted to announce the return of Sag Harbor Song Festival – the annual, beloved autumnal celebration of vocal performance, now in its fifth year!

The six young operatic stars who will make up the roster of Sag Harbor Song Festival 2026 on the third weekend in September are: Tessa McQueen, Elisa Sunshine, Meridian Prall, Daniel O’Hearn, Ben Taylor, and Michael Sumuel.

Each singer is a musician of great talent and accomplishment. Together, they will present a program of opera, musical theater, songs, and lieder in three concerts on successive days in late September. In doing so, they follow in the footsteps of the immensely successful four previous Sag Harbor Song Festivals.

The 2026 event will again be led by two extraordinary directors: Artistic Director Brad Woolbright and Music Director Robert Tweten. Details of the individual concert programming will be available on August 1st

Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, August 1 at 12 PM.

THE 2026 TALENT

Tessa McQueen

Soprano

Photo by Dario Acosta

ABOUT TESSA

Acclaimed for her radiant lyric soprano and compelling stage presence, Tessa McQueen is a second-year member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera. She made her debut last season in Rigoletto (Countess Ceprano) and appears this season in The Magic Flute (First Lady) and La traviata (Annina).

In the summer of 2026, McQueen returns to Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Artist to sing the title role in Puccini’s Tosca. She previously joined the company as a Studio Artist, where she covered Faust (Marguerite), sang in the choruses of Semele and Faust, and performed scenes from Idomeneo (Elettra), Falstaff (Alice Ford), and Der Rosenkavalier (Marschallin).

Highlights of upcoming seasons include her European debut at the Salzburg Easter Festival in Wagner’s Die Walküre (Helmwige), presented as part of the festival’s new Ring cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko and directed by Kirill Serebrennikov. 

A prize-winning artist, she was named a National Finalist in The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition in 2024, following wins in the Colorado–Wyoming District and Rocky Mountain Region. She is also a prizewinner of the Palm Springs Opera Guild Competition and the Denver Lyric Opera Guild Competition.

McQueen holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a Bachelor of Music, with honors, from Oklahoma City University, where her roles included The Bartered Bride (Marie), Susannah (title role), and Massenet’s Cendrillon (title role). She is currently based in New York City.

For more see: www.tessa-mcqueen.com

Elisa Sunshine

Soprano

Photo by Shervin Lainez

ABOUT ELISA

Celebrated for her “blend of vocal sparkl...