Maire Therese Carmack is making her HGO debut as Dodo McNeill in Breaking the Waves and has upcoming debuts at houses including Semperoper Dresden and Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Carmack is a 2024 graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and recently made debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and San Francisco Opera. Previous roles include Marguerite in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust, Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Dulcinee in Massenet’s Don Quichotte, and Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen. Carmack is a third-prize winner of the Operalia World Opera Competition, winner of The Opera Foundation’s Björn Eklund Scholarship, first-prize winner of the Gerda Lissner Lieder and Song Competition, second-prize winner of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and winner of Opera Index's Felix Popper Award.