About TessTess 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.
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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.
Tess was the associate choreographer in CCM's 2022 production of Galileo Galilei (Glass). She served as dance captain in the CCM productions of Le nozze di Figaro, L'Amant Anonyme, and La Rondine. Tess was a soloist at the Independence Day Gala held at the United States Embassy in Florence, Italy. Tess made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2016 singing Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, as well as Suor Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica. She made her debut at AVA's Helen Corning Warden Theatre in Russian Opera Workshop's production of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. In 2016 she made her debut at New York Lyric Opera this as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Some of Tess's recital repertoire includes Brahms Op. 57 Eight Songs, Barbara Strozzi's Sospira, respira and Mentita, Bizet's Les nuits d'été, Bach's Erbarme Dich, Rimsky-Korsakov's Op. 46, and a selection of Florence Price art songs. As a soprano, Tess performed Handel's HWV 140, Grieg's Op. 48, Wolf-Ferrari's Rispetti, Ravel's Hebrew Songs, Rachmaninoff's Op. 38, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées, and Jake Heggie's Natural Selection, in addition to many other recitals featuring varied works. Tess performed for many years in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's annual Holiday Pops Concert under conductor Jeff Tyzik.
Tess completed her Artist Diploma in Opera and her Master of Music in Voice at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She is trilingual, fluent in both Italian and French, majoring in the latter concurrent with her Bachelor’s in Music at Oberlin College & Conservatory. She aspires to combine the arts of opera, pole dance, and burlesque throughout her career.
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.
Tess was the associate choreographer in CCM's 2022 production of Galileo Galilei (Glass). She served as dance captain in the CCM productions of Le nozze di Figaro, L'Amant Anonyme, and La Rondine. Tess was a soloist at the Independence Day Gala held at the United States Embassy in Florence, Italy. Tess made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2016 singing Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, as well as Suor Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica. She made her debut at AVA's Helen Corning Warden Theatre in Russian Opera Workshop's production of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa. In 2016 she made her debut at New York Lyric Opera this as Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Some of Tess's recital repertoire includes Brahms Op. 57 Eight Songs, Barbara Strozzi's Sospira, respira and Mentita, Bizet's Les nuits d'été, Bach's Erbarme Dich, Rimsky-Korsakov's Op. 46, and a selection of Florence Price art songs. As a soprano, Tess performed Handel's HWV 140, Grieg's Op. 48, Wolf-Ferrari's Rispetti, Ravel's Hebrew Songs, Rachmaninoff's Op. 38, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées, and Jake Heggie's Natural Selection, in addition to many other recitals featuring varied works. Tess performed for many years in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's annual Holiday Pops Concert under conductor Jeff Tyzik.
Tess completed her Artist Diploma in Opera and her Master of Music in Voice at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She is trilingual, fluent in both Italian and French, majoring in the latter concurrent with her Bachelor’s in Music at Oberlin College & Conservatory. She aspires to combine the arts of opera, pole dance, and burlesque throughout her career.