Opera Ambassador
Soprano Christine Goerke
has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 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, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with the Mozartand 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 Elektra, Turandot, 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, 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 Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra (in Boston, Carnegie Hall, and the Tanglewood Festival), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Radio Vara (at the Concertgebouw), Sydney Symphony, New 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 worked with some of the world’s foremost conductors including James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davies, Sir Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the late Robert Shaw, Patrick Summers, Jeffery Tate, Christian Thielemann, 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 including 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.
2023 Ms. Goerke returns to the Metropolitan Opera to play Ortrud in Lohengrin, the Washington National Opera for the title role in Elektra, and to Detroit Opera for a role debut as Amneris in a concert production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. She also appears in concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, performing Berlioz’ La mort de Cléopâtre, and with the Festival de Launaudière, singing Sieglinde in the first act of Wagner’s Die Walküre.
Ms. Goerke was the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 MusicalAmerica Vocalist of the Year
Award, and the 2017 Opera News Award.
Christine Goerke, Houston Grand Opera with Joyce DiDonato
Christine Goerke, Opéra national de Paris
Christine Goerke, Metropolitan Opera NY
Christine Goerke, Opera Philadelphia with Roberto de Candia
Christine Goerke, Teatro Real Madrid
Christine Goerke, Metropolitan Opera NY with Thomas Hampson
Christine Goerke, christopher ventris
Christine Goerke, Teatro Regio Torino
Christine Goerke, Teatro Real Madrid
Elektra, Lyric Opera of Chicago with Jill Grove
Soprano Christine Goerke in the press
As Brünnhilde at the Canadian Opera Company:
“Up to this point, Goerke had shown us she possesses everything a great Brunnhilde must have: dignity, stature, and a voice of molten gold. But when she opened up the full depth of her vulnerability to us and showed us the frightened little girl inside the Wangerian goddess, that’s when this woman’s unique powers were revealed to us.”
– The Toronto Star
“Christine Goerke’s gleaming tones sliced through the glittering orchestra.
– The New York Times
As Brünnhilde at the Houston Grand Opera:
“Christine Goerke is the Brünnhilde of dreams, progessing from girlish enthusiasm to defiance to tragic acceptance, her soprano thrilling from top to bottom.”
– Dallas Morning News
“Goerke has grown even more glamourous, even more sensational, her crystalline voice soaring like a genuine warrior and cascading across emotional boundaries.”
– Houstonia
As the Dyer’s Wife at the Metropolitan Opera:
“In a revival of Herbert Wernicke’s 2001 production of “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” the soprano Christine Goerke gave a career-transforming performance as the Dyer’s Wife, displaying the kind of vocal stamina that Wagner-Strauss fanciers have been awaiting since Birgit Nilsson delivered her last “hojotoho!” “…she can create a character as she sings, linking musical phrases to form dramatic paragraphs.
– The New Yorker
“The cast was excellent, especially Christine Goerke as the Dyer’s Wife. She emerged here as a true heir to the daunting dramatic soprano repertory. The Met has big plans for her.”
– The New York Times
“Goerke’s talents are no revelation to opera regulars, but her performance as the Dyer’s hectoring but loving wife launched her onto a new dramatic plane. Even in Herbert Wernicke’s eye-peeling production, Strauss’s opera remains murky; Goerke, though was a beacon of brilliance.”
The 10 Best Classical Performances of the Year
– New York Magazine
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