Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Lynette Tapia Osborn is singing her way around the world. As a world-renowned soprano, Tapia has performed in operas throughout Europe and the United States.

Tapia is a 1991 alumnus of San Clemente High School. A performer throughout her CUSD career, Tapia was already winning awards, such as the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Award, in high school before setting her sights for the opera stage following graduation. She earned her bachelors degree in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Tapia also studied at Yale University, as well as the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

Despite her young age, Tapia has already developed quite a career resume. She was the winner of the 1996 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a winner of the 1996 Concours International de Voix d'Opera Placido Domingo in Bordeaux. Tapia has also won other awards including first prize in the George London Foundation and Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation vocal competitions.

Tapia has performed on stage at the world's premier operas. She has represented Carnegie Hall in a recital at the Palais des Beauz Arts in Brussels and performed at the Washington Opera, Cologne Philharmonia, Musikverein in Vienna and at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. In addition, she has sung with the Opera Orchestra of New York and Washington Concert Opera and Opera Columbus, just to name a few.

Nominated by her former CUSD music teacher, Tapia serves as an outstanding representative of CUSD and her community to students and people throughout the world. She is a resident of Aliso Viejo with her husband and tenor John Osborn. She often performs locally when in town.