With a career of over 25 years, known for the
intensity and honesty of her character portrayal
and clear, silver-toned singing voice, soprano
Beverly O’Regan Thiele earned critical and
popular acclaim for her interpretations of many
important roles from repertoire of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries. Roles
included Blanche in Previn’s A
Streetcar Named Desire, Magda in
The Consul (also recorded on Newport
Classics Label), Mrs. Williamson in David
Lang’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
(also recorded on Canteloupe Records), creating
the leading soprano role in world premieres of
two operas by Michael Nyman (Love Counts
and Man and Boy: Dada), title roles in
Vanessa, Susannah, Jenůfa,
Kát’a Kabanová, Thčrése Raquin,
Abigail in The Crucible, Arkadina
in The Seagull, Miss Jessel in
The Turn of the Screw. Other acclaimed
roles include Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi,
Erste Dame, Musetta;
Chrysothemis, Dritte Magd and
Vierte Magd in Elektra, Ortlinde and
Gerhilde in Die Walküre,
Rosabella in Most Happy Fella.
Opera companies with which she has sung these
roles include Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of
Chicago, Washington National Opera, New York
City Opera, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe,
Broomhill Festival in England, Beth Morrison
Projects, DiCapo Opera, Utah Festival Opera,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among others. Ms
O’Regan Thiele has a self-titled CD of sacred
and religious songs, “Live in the Light”,
accompanied by Chicago’s finest Irish and
Classical musicians.
A student of voice teacher David Jones, the Uta
Hagen Technique at HB Studio, and
Knight-Thompson Speech Work, Ms O’Regan
Thiele maintains a Vocal Arts Studio in which
she coaches acting for opera singers, teaches
voice lessons and accent reduction and
volunteers as an ESL teacher with her local
library outside of Manhattan. She recently
directed Act 3 of Rigoletto, and an evening
concert of arias with Resonanz Opera.
