On Dec. 2, 2025, American dramatic soprano Margaret Jane Wray died at the age of 62.

Born on Dec. 17, 1962, who began her career as a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist program in the mid to late 1980s. Wray was a winner of the 1989 Richard Tucker Award.

She made her debut at the Met in 1987 as Annina in Verdi’s “La Traviata” at age of 25. She went on to sing with the company 92 times in productions of “Die Walküre,” “Aida,” “Götterdämmerung,” “Lohengrin,” “Il Trovatore,” “Rigoletto,” “Idomeneo,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.”

She also went on to perform leading roles with such companies as Teatro alla Scala, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Berlin State Opera, Opéra National de Paris, La Monnaie, L’Opéra de la Bastille, Oper Frankfurt, Teatro Regio di Torino, and Welsh National Opera, among others.

She was well known for her portrayals of Wagnerian operas especially Sieglinde in “Die Walküre” and went on to perform with Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, James Conlon, Antonio Pappano, Deborah Voigt, James Morris, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Greer Grimsley, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Georg Solti, and Riccardo Muti.

Wray performed until 2013 and became a voice teacher at the Phipps Center for the Arts and a board member of the St. Croix Valley Opera.