Christine Goerke

Soprano

Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan OperaLyric Opera of ChicagoSan Francisco OperaSanta Fe OperaWashington National OperaHouston Grand OperaSeattle OperaOpera Company of PhiladelphiaPittsburgh OperaNew York City OperaGlimmerglass OperaRoyal Opera House Covent GardenParis OperaThéâtre du ChâteletThéâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper BerlinLa ScalaMaggio Musical FiorentinoTeatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now earning critical acclaim for the dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has received praise for her portrayals of the title roles in ElektraTurandot, and Ariadne auf Naxos, Brünnhilde in The Ring Cycle, Kundry in Parsifal, Ortrud in Lohengrin, Leonora in Fidelio, Eboli in Don Carlos, The Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Marie in Wozzeck, Cassandre in Les Troyens, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Alice in Falstaff, and Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmelites.

Ms. Goerke has also appeared with a number of the leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic OrchestraBoston Symphony Orchestra (in Boston, Carnegie Hall, and the Tanglewood Festival), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland OrchestraLos Angeles PhilharmonicNational Symphony OrchestraRadio Vara (at the Concertgebouw), Sydney SymphonyNew Zealand Symphony, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, and the Hallé Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival. She has also toured Europe with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. She has worked with some of the world’s foremost conductors including James ConlonSir Andrew DavisSir Mark ElderChristoph EschenbachClaus Peter FlorJames LevineSir Charles MackerrasKurt MasurZubin MehtaAndris NelsonsSeiji OzawaDavid RobertsonDonald RunniclesEsa-Pekka SalonenRobert ShawPatrick SummersJeffery TateChristian ThielemannMichael Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart.