Meghan Picerno is an American theatre actress and singer.^[1] She is best known for her five-year history of playing the role of Christine Daaé in several productions, including the US Premiere and 1st National Tour of Love Never Dies, and the world tour and Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera.^[1][2][3][4]

Meghan Picerno studied music at Illinois Wesleyan University.^[5] She later graduated from Manhattan School of Music with a M.M. in voice.^[1]

Picerno began her career in the opera world. In 2012, she took part in the "I Sing Beijing" program, performing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China),^[6] and appeared on a popular China Central Television program, performing George Gershwin's It Ain't Necessarily So, along-side American Tenor Jamez McCorkle and Dutch-Canadian Tenor Lucas van Lierop.^[7] In 2015, she was a quarterfinalist in Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Vocal Competition.^[8] She has also performed La fée from Massenet's Cendrillon in Montreal, and the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall.^[1]

Picerno's first crossover into musical theatre was New York City Opera's Candide, which was directed by Hal Prince.^[5] She played Cunégonde at this production.^[5]

Hal Prince and his team then cast Picerno as Christine Daaé in the US Premiere and First National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, the sequel to the hit and longest-running stage musical The Phantom of the Opera.^[1] In 2019, she reprised the role in the second world tour of The Phantom of the Opera.^[2] Later in the year, she transferred to the New York production to make her Broadway debut in the role.^[2] After reopening The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway after the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, Picerno played her final show as Christine Daaé on January 23, 2022, ending her five-year run as the character.^[9]