In the 2025–26 season, American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy makes two role debuts, first as Rodolfo in La bohème with Madison Opera, and later as Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly with Arizona Opera. Elsewhere, he will headline Bozeman Symphony’s Christmas program. In the 2024–25 season, Terrence made his European debut singing Gualtiero in Vivaldi’s Griselda with the Danish National Opera, returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Policeman 1 in Blue, and sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Virginia Opera, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Opera Omaha, and, in concert, Graf Albert in Die tote Stadt with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Highlights of recent seasons include Terrence’s solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones; Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan; Don José in Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center; Pang in Turandot with LA Opera; Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Victor Frankenstein in the world premiere of Frankenstein, Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music, Tamino, and Ferrando with Arizona Opera; the tenor solos in Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road with Virginia Opera; and Benny Paret Jr. in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Champion. In concert, Terrence performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall; performed Haydn’s The Creation with the Lubbock Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with the North Carolina Symphony, an Independence Day celebration concert with the Caramoor Festival, and Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes with the Boise Philharmonic, and took part in a residency with the College of Idaho.

Based in New York City, Terrence is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a performer diploma. He also holds degrees from Mannes School of Music and a BA in music from Yale University, where his studies concentrated on music theory and musicology and he was a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project. He is a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.

photo: Jiyang Chen