Lara Tan Rui Qi

Lara is a senior in Cabot House concentrating in Music and Government. Originally from Singapore, her principal teachers include Jeong Ae Ree and Jayne West.

She has performed frequently with New Opera Singapore since 2019, in productions including Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Peaseblossom), Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (Anne Trulove), Menotti's The Telephone (Lucy England), Dvorak's Rusalka (Turnspit). Her operatic credits with Harvard College Opera include Meg Page in Verdi's Falstaff and Noemie in Massenet's Cendrillon, and she was the vocal coach for HCO's 2026 production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Lara was also the stage director of HCO's 2025 ArtsFirst performance of the Don Giovanni Act 1 finale (W. a. Mozart), and the artistic director of HCO's 2026 ArtsFirst performance of the Little Women finale (Mark Adamo).

Lara equally enjoys oratorio, art song, and choral music. Lara is a Ferris Choral Fellow and the Senior Choir Secretary of the Harvard University Choir. Off campus, she was a Young Artist in the 2025 Northwestern Bach Academy, and was a finalist in the inaugural Southeast Asia Bach Competition 2025 and a semifinalist in the 2026 Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Competition. On campus, she has made guest appearances with Bach Society Orchestra as Liesgen in Bach's Coffee Cantata.