Tess is a singing actress, stage director, choreographer, and burlesque artist under the stage name of Paris Euphoria. This season she completed a title role debut in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. She made her company debut in 2023 as Morozova in Tchaikovsky's Undina with Queen City Opera. She also made her company debut singing Hortensius in Opera Company of Middlebury's La Fille du Régiment while working as a young artist there in June 2024. Tess incorporates elements of dance and body awareness into her work. Last Spring, Tess sang the role of Ruth in Opera Fusion: New Works Workshop with Santa Fe Opera in Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s The Righteous. Last summer, she stage directed the Bach Coffee Cantata for Queen City Opera. She recently associate directed Chicago Summer Opera's production of Handel's Rinaldo and sang her role debut of Third Lady with Luke Housner Summer Opera's Die Zauberflöte. This Summer, Tess will sing in the ensemble of Cincinnati Opera's staged production of Paul McCartney and Carl Davis' Liverpool Oratorio, reviving her role in Queen City Opera's production of The Magic Flute: Super Flute at the Aronoff Center, and debuting the role of Camille Claudel in the world premiere of Nathan Felix's The Thinker at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Tess is also a burlesque dancer and choreographer. Her choreography for Handel's Rinaldo with Chicago Summer Opera was recently nominated by Broadway World Chicago for Best Choreography. In 2023, Tess choreographed a musical review for Oldenburg Academy. She teaches bi-monthly classes with Confidence Builds in Heels, and performs regularly throughout Cincinnati and Ohio as burlesque artist Paris Euphoria. Some other recent credits include Agrippina in Handel's Agrippina, Mère Marie in Poulenc's Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Lucilla in Rossini's La Scala di Seta, Core Chorister for Cincinnati Opera, Dorothée in Chevalier de Saint-George's L'Amant Anonyme, Marcellina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Turnspit in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Bizet's operas Carmen and Djamileh at CCM’s Opera Bootcamp, and Suzy in CCM's production of La Rondine. Some of Tess’s other roles include Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Musetta in La Bohème. |
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