Leadership & Staff

Stacey Trenteseaux
General Director

Stacey is a professional singer, coach, consultant, teacher, and mentor serving as the General Director of Opera Idaho in Boise, Idaho. As a performer and artistic leader, Stacey is passionate about fostering innovation and creativity in the arts and across industries. She helps people discover, embrace, and express themselves through the arts with balance, imagination, wisdom, creativity, and authenticity in their job, family, community and cultural or artistic endeavors. 

In the space between her work as an arts administrator and executive, Stacey performs as often as possible and has sung with various companies in the United States and Germany throughout her career. Performances in the 2025-2026 season include Serpina in Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona with Boise Baroque Orchestra, as a soloist with the Boise Philharmonic singing Bach’s Wachet Auf! Ruft Uns Die Stimme, BWV140, and other concerts in The Treasure Valley. During the 2024-2025 season, Stacey appeared as La Badessa in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with Opera Idaho, as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah with Gemma Arts, and as emcee and soloist in Opera Idaho’s Opera in the Park. In 2023-2024, Stacey sang a role debut singing Rosalinda in J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus with Opera Mississippi, as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Natchez Festival of Music and with the Meistersingers of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and other concert and solo appearances in Jackson, Mississippi.

Other roles and performances include her German debut in 2018 as Luisa in Verdi’s Luisa Miller with Pasinger Fabrik in Munich, Germany, a Biermädchen in Liam Wade’s Eine Oktoberfest Oper with the Semperoper Dresden, Juliette from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Opera Mississippi (canceled due to Covid), Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen with Opera Mississippi and CCM Summer Opera, Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Astoria Music Festival and the Southern Opera Theatre Company as well as Hanna in Lehar’s Die lustige Witwe, Angelica in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, and First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte along with Manhattan Opera Studio. She’s also performed as a soloist with Opernfest Prague, the Savannah Voice Festival, Operafestival di Roma, and other summer music festivals.

Stacey is fortunate to have some very talented friends with whom she has collaborated on a variety of concert experiences. With tenor, Peter Lake, she helped script and performed Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza performed for Opera Mississippi’s Duling Hall series in 2022. She presented Debussy’s complete Proses lyriques with German pianist and conductor, Thomas Cadenbach, in the concert Liederabend-Zeitenwende at the Sawallisch Stiftung in Grassau, Germany (2021), and reprised that performance with Chinese American pianist Zhaolei Xie for the Chaminade Music Club of Jackson, MS. Other collaborations with Zhaolei include A Night of Love Songs and Moonlight and Magic! performed as a guest artist for Opera Mississippi and the Natchez Festival. She also recorded Fierce Femmes, a virtual concert for Opera Mississippi in 2020 in collaboration with Israeli-American mezzo soprano Michal Doron and created Mondenschein, a solo recital with pianist, Ellen Rissinger performed in 2019 at the Robert Schumann concert hall in the Coselpalais Dresden. And one of her most memorable concert performances was the world premiere of PostSecret: A Song Cycle by award-winning composer Jonathan Posthuma at the New Music Composer’s Symposium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

As an advocate, speaker, and clinician for arts, entrepreneurship, and vocal coaching, she has presented workshops, masterclasses, and presentations for The New Voice Festival in NYC, Ithaca College, the University of Utah, Jackson State University, Belhaven University and as a guest clinician for Netzwerk G Teachers’ Corner with Studio Gudrun Bär in Weimar, Germany. She also served as Executive Director for Opera Mississippi from 2021-2023, Artistic Director for the International Performing Arts Institute in Germany and Fairhope. AL from 2019-2022, and as a music festival coordinator and arts consultant and business operations manager for many years. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Music in Choral Education from the University of Florida and (after a 4-year stint as a high school band and choir director) a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi. She is currently enjoying discovering and exploring her new home state of Idaho with her boyfriend Jeremiah and their two fur-babies, Meggie and Ginger.