Ms. McNairy’s 2025/2026 season brings many new roles and opportunities, including covering the leading role of Queen Elizabeth I in Brett Dean’s world premiere, Of One Blood, at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Role debuts at Staatstheater Meiningen will include Agathe in Der Freischütz, Mimì in La Bohème, Sylva in Die Csárdásfürstin, and Desdemona in Otello. Ms. McNairy will reprise the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Venus in Tannhäuser at the Wartburg Castle. She was nominated in Opernwelt Magazin’s 2025 Jahresbilanz for “Singer of the Year” for her portrayals of Venus in Tannhäuser and Avis in The Wreckers. She makes her role debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with the Richard Wagner Verband Minden at Stadttheater Minden with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie under the baton of Frank Beermann in September 2026.

Her 2024/2025 season at Staatstheater Meiningen includes role debuts such as Venus in the Dresden version of Tannhäuser at the Wartburg Castle, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Avis in the German-language premiere of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Télaïre in Castor et Pollux, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and reprisals of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Queen Isabella in Una cosa rara. She performed Marie in Wozzeck in the summer of 2025 with West Edge Opera.

In 2023/2024, Ms. McNairy joined the Ensemble of Staatstheater Meiningen, where she sang Lora in Wagner’s Die Feen, Contessa Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Johanne in the world premiere of Gespenster by Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, Isabella in Una cosa rara by Martín y Soler, and performed Sibelius’ Opus 37 with GMD Killian Farrell. In May 2024, she won 3rd Prize at the Zenith Opera Competition in Berlin, and in July, sang various recitals throughout Finland with her wife, bass-baritone Sam Taskinen.

During the 2021-2022 season, Ms. McNairy sang Elvire in La Muette de Portici by Auber and Ännchen in Der Freischütz with Staatstheater Kassel. She also performed Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire at the Bucharest National Opera under the baton of Iosif Prunner with the Constantin Silvestri Ensemble. In California, she performed a recital of songs and texts by women with Daniel Lockert. She reprised the recital with the addition of Kaija Saariaho’s Mirage with pianist Giulia Glennon and cellist Runa Büsing in cooperation with Staatstheater Kassel in March 2023, where she returned as Ännchen in Der Freischütz. She was also a 2023 finalist in the Zenith Opera Competition.

Other guest engagements include the title role of Haydn's Armida with Victory Hall Opera in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2019 and her Lincoln Center debut with the Mostly Mozart Festival in Bernstein's Mass under the baton of Louis Langrée in 2018. She has also been a guest artist at Oper Kiel (Contessa di Folleville/IL VIAGGIO A REIMS), Stadttheater Gießen (Zerbinetta/ARIADNE AUF NAXOS), Opera Siam (Temple Dancer/MAE NAAK), Livermore Valley Opera (Clorinda/LA CENERENTOLA, Elvira/L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI, Lucia(cover)/LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR), West Edge Opera (Maid/POWDER HER FACE, Ophélie/HAMLET, Poppea/L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, Zerbinetta/ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, Lulu/LULU, and Elisabetta/ELISABETTA, REGINA D’INGHILTERRA), Brava! Opera Theater (Lucy/THE TELEPHONE and Laetitia/THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF), and Silbersee (Poppea/MONTEVERDISH). She sang Carmina Burana at Hamburg's Laeiszhalle and has appeared in concert with Chorus Austin, Cantata Profana, San Jose Symphonic Choir, and the Friction Quartet.

A member of the Ensemble at Theater Lübeck from 2016/2017 - 2020/2021, Ms. McNairy sang a wide range of roles including Graun's Montezuma as Erissena, Madeleine de Faublas in Ball im Savoy, Dede in Bernstein's A Quiet Place, the title role in Richard van Schoor's world premiere of L'Européenne, Sophie in Werther, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Contessa di Folleville in Il Viaggio a Reims, Mary in Der Ferne Klang, Dalinda in Ariodante, Donna Anna (cover) in Don Giovanni, and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, among others.