American tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, whom Opera News described as having a “beautiful lyric tenor voice” pairs passionate performance with a full, sweet sound. In the 2024-2025 season, Mr. Chin-Loy makes his European debut singing Gualtiero in Vivaldi’s Griselda with the Danish National Opera, returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for in Blue, performs the role of 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.

In the 2023-2024 season, Mr. Chin-Loy returned to Arizona Opera to sing Roméo in Roméo et Juliette and Victor Frankenstein the world premiere of Frankenstein. With LA Opera, he sang Pang in Turandot and with Virginia Opera and the tenor solos in Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road. In concert, Mr. Chin-Loy joined the Lubbock Symphony for Haydn’s Creation.

Highlights of recent seasons also include Mr. Chin-Loy’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 and at Arizona Opera, Don José in Carmen with MasterVoices at Lincoln Center, Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Arizona Opera, and Benny Paret, Jr. in Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Champion. In concert, he performed and recorded Taneyev’s At the Reading of a Psalm with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall, the North Carolina Symphony for Mozart’s Requiem, the Caramoor Festival for an Independence Day celebration concert, the Boise Philharmonic for a performance of Hailstork’s I Will Life Mine Eyes as well as a residency with the College of Idaho.

Terrence’s favorite roles include Idomeneo in Idomeneo: afterWARds (Pittsburgh Opera), director David Paul’s retelling of Mozart’s masterpiece with the composer’s original music, Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (Indiana University), and Younger Thompson in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied (Pittsburgh Opera, Penn Square Music Festival). He was happy to make his Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah in the 2018-2019 season.

Terrence is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a Performer Diploma. He also holds degrees from Mannes College and Yale University. At Mannes, he performed the roles of Laurie in Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Bill in the New York premiere of Jonathan Dove’s Flight with Mannes Opera, and received the Michael Sisca Opera Award, the school’s top prize for an opera singer. Terrence holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University, where his studies concentrated on Music Theory and Musicology. While at Yale, Terrence was also a frequent performer with the Yale Baroque Opera Project, with which he performed major roles in La Calisto, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, and Scipione affricano. He is a 2018 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions National Semifinalist.