She has sung principal roles at the Metropolitan Opera from 1991 - 2003, including: Elektra, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Carmen, Manon, Stiffelio, Death in Venice, Ghosts of Versailles, Idomeneo, War and Peace, Jenufa, Rigoletto and Lady McBeth of Mtsensk. Her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut was as Greta Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene where she also has covered Renee Fleming in the title role of Alcina and the role of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.

Recently she has performed her debuts as Pamina (Magic Flute) and La Contessa di Alamaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) and Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte) with the Granite State Opera.

Theresa Cincione has appeared at the Newport Music Festival, where she performed a large and varied concert repertoire including Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Strauss’ Four Last Songs and songs and ensembles by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann, Guastavino, Rodrigo and in a concert presentation of Mozart’s The Impresario. At the Berkshire Choral Institute in Massachusetts, she has appeared as soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Dvorak’s Te Deum, and Vaughn Williams’ Sea Symphony. She has sung Handel’s Messiah with the Columbus Symphony and the Mozart Requiem with the Colorado Symphony, Marin Alsop conducting. She has performed with Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York, most recently in the title role of Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco in the orchestra’s performance in Princeton, New Jersey, and previously in the Carnegie Hall presentations of Massenet’s Herodiade and Donizetti’s Caterina Cornaro.

Ms. Cincione has also won many singing awards; Including Licia Albanese Foundation Grant, Musician Emergency Fund 2nd Place Winner, Opera Columbus Competition 2nd Prize, Liederkranz Foundation Grant, Opera Index Career Development Grant, Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, Metropolitan Opera National Council Regional Finalist and the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers Opera Scholarship.

She received her undergraduate degrees from Ohio State University, and holds her Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music. Currently she resides in New York City.