Colorado Springs native Meg Brilleslyper is a mezzo-soprano currently a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper Opernstudio (Bavarian State Opera Studio) in Munich, Germany. As part of the studio, she has recently appeared as Flora in La Traviata, Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel, and Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte. Upcoming roles with the Bayerische Staatsoper include Babette (Die Englische Katze), Die Vertraute (Elektra), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Clotilde (Norma), Brautjungfer (Der Freischütz), and Der Küchenjunge (Rusalka).

In recent seasons, Meg has performed Isolier in Rossini’s Le comte Ory with the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco and Mercédès in Carmen at the Music Academy of the West, where she was a 2024 Lehrer Vocal Institute Fellow. In 2023, she attended the Young Artists’ Vocal Academy at Houston Grand Opera, studying with Dr. Stephen King, and subsequently returned to the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Studio Artist, working with Patrick Summers, Renée Fleming, Rachelle Fleming, Robin Rice, and Betsy Bishop.

Meg’s recent and notable roles include Cherubino (The Ghosts of Versailles), Bradamante (Alcina), Lucretia* and Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Filipyevna* (Eugene Onegin), and Nancy (Albert Herring) with the Miami Beach Music Festival. She also created the role of the Healer in the world premiere of So You May Breathe In Light, a one-act opera by Theo Chandler, in April 2024. Her scenes repertoire includes Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia), Meg Page (Falstaff), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Sesto (Giulio Cesare), and Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte).

While at the Eastman School of Music, Meg appeared with Eastman Opera Theatre as The Foreign Singer (Postcard from Morocco), Pane (La Calisto), Ruggiero (Alcina), and Granny/Witch (cover) in Into the Woods. She was also featured as the alto soloist in Bach Cantatas BWV 132, 33, and 34, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Eastman Philharmonia.

An active competitor and award recipient, Meg was a career grant recipient at the 2025 Sullivan Foundation Competition, a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Houston District in January 2025, having also received an Encouragement Award in 2024. She was one of seven finalists in the 2025 Houston Grand Opera Concert of Arias and won first place in the Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition (2023). Additional honors include winning the Eastman Concerto Competition (2022) with Rossini’s La regata veneziana and an Encouragement Award from the Schmidt Vocal Institute Undergraduate Voice Competition (2023). With collaborator Lyndsi Maus, she advanced to the semifinals of the Schubert and Modern Music International Chamber Music Competition in Graz, Austria (2025). In August 2024, she appeared as the soloist in Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the Music Academy Festival Orchestra.

Looking ahead, Meg will compete in the Finals of the Dallas Opera Competition in March 2026 and will make her Carnegie Hall debut in April 2026 as the alto soloist in Mozart’s Requiem.

Outside of opera, Meg enjoys concert and oratorio repertoire. When not rehearsing or performing, she loves spending time outdoors and traveling, and she is deeply passionate about the intersection of vocal training and physical health through activities such as weight training, yoga, hiking, and running.

Meg holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM ’23), where she studied with Katherine Ciesinski, and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University (MM ’25), where she studied with Robin Rice.