Washington Post: CCM alumna in 22 for '22 list of artists to watch this year

Described as a “powerful rising soprano,” at just 25 years-old, McMillon has taken the opera industry by storm. She was named a 2021 Grand Finals Winner of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (formerly known as the National Council Auditions) and recently joined the roster of IMG Artists, who represent top classical artists worldwide. Now in her second year as a studio artist with the Houston Grand Opera, McMillon starred in Joel Thompson’s A Snowy Day for which she garnered critical acclaim and a front page spread in the New York Times. Her 2021-22 season also sees house debuts with Des Moines Metro Opera (Pamina in The Magic Flute) and Opera Philadelphia (Gilda in Rigoletto). 

During her time at CCM, she was a student of Thomas Baresel, singing Linfea in La Calisto and slated for Papagena in the Spring 2020 production of The Magic Flute, which was canceled due to COVID-19. She also performed as La Princesse in L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Feburary 2020.

McMillon returns to Cincinnati this summer, singing Musetta in La Bohème and Ruthie in the highly anticipated world premiere of Gregory Spears’ Castor and Patience with Cincinnati Opera. She was seen in as Frasquita, the company’s outdoor presentation of Carmen last summer.