About this Artist

The outstanding soprano is a native of Los Angeles, California, and fascinates the musical world with her enormous stage presence and range of repertoire. As a principal artist at the Bremen Opera between 2007–2012, she sang roles such as Sophie in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute. She performed the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Autonoe in Henze’s The Bassarids at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Servilia in Gluck’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Theater an der Wien. She thrilled audiences and critics alike with her own daring and controversial staging of György Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre with the Noord Netherlands Orchestra in 2017, followed by performances with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway and with the BBC Scottish Symphony in the UK. In 2019, she received rave reviews for her interpretation of soprano 1 in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore at the Theater Basel. In 2021, she sang Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to great acclaim. She made her debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in John Cage’s Europeras and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne in Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre at the Cologne Philharmonie in celebration of the composer’s 100th anniversary in 2023. She sang Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Detroit Symphony, Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic-Wordplay at the Bergen International Festival, and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Five Images After Sappho with the London Philharmonia. In 2023, she also made her first appearance with the Amarillo Symphony with Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and bluegrass songs arranged by herself for orchestra and banjo. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music and is an alumnus of the Académie Lyrique at Festival Aix-en-Provence and of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.