Soprano Christine Goerke is the recipient of the Richard Tucker Award, Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year Award, and the Opera News Award. Highlights of her 26/27 season include returns to The Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera for two world premieres: Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo (Reverend) and Christopher Tin’s O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky (Mabel Dodge Luhan). On the concert stage, Christine returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Wagner: Myth & Music, an evening celebrating the music of Wagner; the Immolation Scene from Götterdämmerung with New World Symphony; sings Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the University Musical Society; and makes her Princeton Symphony Orchestra debut performing Wagner’s “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder.
She has appeared at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera, The Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, New York City Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre du Capitole, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Real, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival.
Ms. Goerke began her career singing the works of Mozart and Handel and has since earned international acclaim for her commanding portrayals of the dramatic heroines of Strauss and Wagner. Signature roles include the title roles in Elektra, Turandot, and Ariadne auf Naxos; as well as Der Ring des Nibelungen (Brünnhilde), Parsifal (Kundry), Lohengrin (Ortrud), Fidelio (Leonora), Don Carlos (Eboli), Die Frau ohne Schatten (Die Färberin), Wozzeck (Marie), Les Troyens (Cassandre), Peter Grimes (Ellen Orford), The Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus), Falstaff (Alice), and Dialogues des Carmélites (Madame Lidoine).
On the concert stage, she has appeared with many of the world’s foremost orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Radio Vara Orchestra at the Concertgebouw, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. She has collaborated with such conductors as James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor, Alan Gilbert, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Shaw, Patrick Summers, Jeffrey Tate, Christian Thielemann, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart.
Her discography includes the GRAMMY® Award-winning recording of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance), as well as the GRAMMY®-nominated recording of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Her long collaboration with Robert Shaw yielded acclaimed recordings of Brahms’s Liebeslieder Walzer, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater. Additional notable recordings include Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigénie, Telarc) and Britten’s War Requiem, which won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance.
2026-2027
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