Talise Trevigne begins the 2013-14 Season with her appearance as the three Heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Knoxville Opera. She returns to Washington National Opera where she revives the role of Pip Moby-Dick, a role specially written for her and which she inaugurated at the world premiere of the piece at Dallas Opera and has since sung in San Francisco and San Diego. She travels to Oregon to join the cast of Portland Opera’s Pirates of Penzance as Mabel. A passionate supporter and interpreter of contemporary music, Miss Trevigne sang the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s song cycle ‘Pieces of 9/11 – Memories from Houston’ at Houston Grand Opera, and her solo CD, ‘At the Statue of Venus’ (GPR Records), written by Mr Heggie and Glen Roven—award-winning composers both—quickly climbed to the top of the US record charts. She is featured on Jake Heggie’s latest CD release, ‘here/after, songs of lost voices’‘here/after, songs of lost voices’ alongside Stephen Costello, Joyce DidDonato and Nathan Gunn. Recent successes include her appearance with Albany Symphony Orchestra to perform Christopher Rouse’s masterpiece Kabir Padavali and a further house and role debut as Julie in Francesca Zambello’s production of Showboat at Washington National Opera.