Emerging American soprano Megan Koch is a dynamic performer based in DFW. 2026 brings several local concert features, a recital, and role reprises galore! More announcements coming soon.
Megan kicked off her 2025- 2026 season as an Emerging Artist at Jennifer Rowley's Aria Bootcamp, was featured in several concerts with Opera Arlington, St. Andrew Concert Series, and the Puccini Society in Dallas. She also jumped in to reprise her Donna Anna with Emory University's StageWorks production of Don Giovanni.
In the 2024-25 season, she returned to Fort Worth Opera as Amy in Mark Adamo's Little Women, debuted Kjersti in the revival of Douglas Moore's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Giants in the Earth, a story of Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas, with the South Dakota Symphony, and made her main-stage debut Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Opera Arlington.
In the 2023-2024 season, Megan was featured on the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops concerts, both conducted by Taichi Fukumura. Megan made her Shreveport Opera debut as Berta (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and returned as a Resident Artist to make her role debut as Violetta (La traviata); she also portrayed Nala, a cat, in Jody Goble's One-Act, Meow and Forever, recorded by Opera Arlington and Really Spicy Opera, in the 2022-2023 season.
Megan was the winner of the Classical Singer Vocal Competition - Emerging Artist Division in 2022. As a Hattie Mae Lesley Resident Artist at Fort Worth Opera in the '20-'21 and '21-'22 seasons, featured soloist with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in a concert entitled "America Strong", which was broadcasted on Channel 8 on July 4, 2020, prepared to cover Musetta (La Bohème), performed a mobile outdoor opera entitled "Manon on the Move" which included excerpts from Massenet's Manon and narrations to fill in the gaps, was responsible for the role of Ana Maria in the world premier of Hector J. Armienta’s Zorro, and finally, made her mainstage debut as Annina and covered Violetta (La traviata).
Her previous operatic credits include Lucia di Lammermoor, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Vixen (Cunning Little Vixen), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Alexandra (Regina), Rose (Street Scene), and La princesse (L’enfant et les sortilèges). With Fort Worth Opera, Megan debuted the roles of Mariana and the Grandmother in American composer Joe Illick and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell's family opera Frida Kahlo and The Bravest Girl in the World as well as Delia in the duo’s Stone Soup.
Megan was invited to the Czech Republic in 2019 for the premiere of two lost operas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer for the Olomouc Baroque Festival. A finalist in the Lewisville Lake Symphony International Voice Competition (2019 and 2022) and the University of North Texas Concerto Competition, she holds the Master of Music Degree and the Graduate Artist Certificate from University of North Texas as well as a Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University.