A native of Toronto, Mary Jane Egan completed her Masters in Voice and Opera at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, where she was the recipient of the Gaelyne Gabora Memorial Prize, the Martha Schiller Memorial Award, and the Duncan Campbell Memorial Award. In 2024, she was selected as a District singer in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and took home second prize at the Toronto Mozart Competition. Her opera roles include Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre), Nora in R. Vaughn Williams’ Riders to the Sea (Opera McGill), and Suor Genovieffa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (UC CCM Opera Bootcamp). Mary Jane is a member of the Toronto Opera in Concert Chorus. A lover of sacred and concert repertoire, Mary Jane has performed as the soprano soloist in G.F. Handel’s Messiah (Toronto Beach Chorale), Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (McGill Symphony Orchestra), Howard Goodale’s Eternal Light (McGill Concert Choir), Dvorak’s Te Deum and Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore (Cantabile Chorale). In April, she will join the Missaisauga Chamber Singers for Gabriel Faure’s Requiem.
