Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera , New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, La Scala, Maggio Musical Fiorentio, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, beginning with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now moving into dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has also received acclaim for her portrayals of the title roles in
Ariadne auf Naxos,
Norma and
Iphigenie en Tauride; Kundry in
Parsifal, Ortrud in
Lohengrin, Leonora in
Fidelio, Rosalinde in
Die Fledermaus, Ellen Orford in
Peter Grimes, Female Chorus in
The Rape of Lucretia, Alice in
Falstaff, and Madame Lidone in
Dialogues des Carmelites.
Ms. Goerke has also appeared with a number of the leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Houston Symphony, Duluth Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has worked with some of the world's foremost conductors including James Conlon, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the late Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Jeffery Tate, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart. ...
read full bioSoprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera , New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, La Scala, Maggio Musical Fiorentio, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, beginning with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now moving into dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has also received acclaim for her portrayals of the title roles in
Ariadne auf Naxos,
Norma and
Iphigenie en Tauride; Kundry in
Parsifal, Ortrud in
Lohengrin, Leonora in
Fidelio, Rosalinde in
Die Fledermaus, Ellen Orford in
Peter Grimes, Female Chorus in
The Rape of Lucretia, Alice in
Falstaff, and Madame Lidone in
Dialogues des Carmelites.
Ms. Goerke has also appeared with a number of the leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Houston Symphony, Duluth Symphony, Sydney Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has worked with some of the world's foremost conductors including James Conlon, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the late Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Jeffery Tate, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart.
Ms. Goerke's recording of Vaughan Williams’
A Sea Symphony with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording and Best Choral Performance. Her close association with Robert Shaw yielded several recordings included the Brahms'
Liebeslieder Waltzes, Poulenc's
Stabat Mater, Szymanowski's
Stabat Mater, and the Grammy-nominated recording of Dvorak's
Stabat Mater. Other recordings include the title role in
Iphigenie en Tauride for Telarc and Britten’s
War Requiem, which won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
This season, Ms. Goerke makes her debut in Madrid as the title role in
Elektra and returns to the Houston Grand Opera as Eboli in
Don Carlos. She also appears in concert with the Seattle Symphony and sings her first performances of Brünnhilde in
Die Walküre with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Goerke is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award.
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