Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in many of the most prestigious opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House, Paris Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Real in Madrid 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. Ms. Goerke has also appeared with a number of leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Radio Vara, the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms and both the Hallè Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Symphony at the Edinburgh International Festival. Ms. Goerke is the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 Musical America Vocalist of the Year Award and the 2017 Opera News Award.

Heralded internationally as an artist with “a remarkable future” (Opera World), American tenor Brian Jagde brings his dynamic vocalism and captivating stage presence to several of opera’s most iconic roles including Cavaradossi in Tosca, Calaf in Turandot, Don José in Carmen, Ennzo Grimaldi in La Gioconda, Don Alvaro in La Forza del Destino, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, Radamès in Aida, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana, Des Greiux in Manon Lescaut, Prince in Rusalka, and Der Fremde in Das Wunder der Heliane. He appears regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra National de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu.   Due to the ongoing pandemic, many of Mr. Jagde’s 2020-2021 season engagements were cancelled. However, he was still able to make his house debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Turiddu in Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, followed by his first collaboration with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Long Yu to record Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde for a Deutsche Grammophon release. This spring he makes his debuts with both Opera Philadelphia in special concert performances of Tosca and Michigan Opera Theatre in special concert performances of Cavalleria rusticana, and this summer he returns to the Bayersiche Staatsoper in Turandot.   In addition to his stage career, Mr. Jagde advocates and volunteers for several arts education organizations and schools in New York City and across the U.S. He is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Adler and Merola Programs. Mr. Jagde was born and raised in New York, where he currently resides.   April 2021   Photo Credit: Simon Pauly

Praised by The Washington Post for her “gorgeous, warm voice that you want to keep listening to,” American mezzo-soprano Catherine Martin continues to make an impact in repertoire ranging from Verdi and Wagner to Strauss and Bellini. She recently performed as Wellgunde in Götterdämmerung with the National Taichung Theatre in Taiwan. Her 2018-2019 season included Wowkle in La fanciulla del West with Maryland Lyric Opera, Tamara in Enemies, A Love Story with Kentucky Opera, Eva Crowley in An American Dream with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Verdi's Requiem with the El Paso Choral Society, Maddalena in Rigoletto with New Orleans Opera, and Herodias in Salome with Dayton Opera. Recent seasons have included performances with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Waltraute in Die Walküre, her Minnesota Opera debut as Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking and joining the National Chorale for the world premiere of Angela Rice’s Thy Will Be Done performed at Lincoln Center.

Ronnita Miller received her Masters of Music from the Manhattan School of Music and graduated from The Juilliard School before spending two years in the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera.  In 2008, she became a principal artist in the ensemble at Deutsche Oper Berlin where she remained until 2019 singing many roles including Mama Lucia Cavalleria Rusticana, Third Lady Die Zauberflöte, Mary Der fliegende Holländer, Madelon Andrea Chenier, Ulrika Un Ballo in Maschera. Ronnita appeared in several roles in Der Ring des Nibelungen, most notably Erda and First Norn, roles she also sang at San Francisco Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Semperoper Dresden and The Metropolitan Opera of New York. She sang concert performances of the work at Tanglewood Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw. Miss Miller has appeared in many concerts worldwide, and has shared the concert stage with Christian Thielemann, Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, Alexander Vedernikov, Donald Runnicles, Fabio Luisi and Riccardo Muti among others.  Returning to the US in 2020, the artist joined Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for their Gala concert last fall, and she’s currently appearing as Mrs Peacham The Threepenny Opera at The Atlanta Opera. She returns to the Metropolitan Opera next season for the role of Big Stone in Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice.

Lauded by Opera News for his “inky bass-baritone and clear projection seemed ideally suited to the role, capturing this isolated man's passion with telling grief,” in the 2020/21 season Alfred Walker joins to the Michigan Opera Theatre for Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana. Among his upcoming engagements, he will return to the Metropolitan Opera for further performances of Crown in Porgy and Bess, to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Vater in Hansel und Gretel, and join San Francisco Opera as Scarpia in Tosca.  Last season, he sang Crown in Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera), Vater in Hansel und Gretel (San Francisco Opera), Oroveso in Norma (Boston Lyric Opera), and Porgy in Porgy and Bess (Washington National Opera).  Recent performances include: Titurel in Parisfal, Parsi Rustomji in Satyagraha and the Speaker in The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera); the Ruler in Das Wunder der Heliane (Bard Summerscape); Orest in Elektra (San Francisco Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Seattle Opera, San Sebastián Festival); Amonasro in Aida and Porgy in Porgy and Bess (Seattle Opera); Méphistophélès in Faust (Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Portland Opera); Der fliegende Holländer, Amfortas in Parsifal, and Amonasro in Aida (Theater Basel); Wotan in Das Rheingold (North Carolina Opera); Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle (New Japan Philharmonic); Pizarro in Fidelio (Caramoor Music Festival); Josh Gibson in The Player King (Pittsburgh Opera); Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann (Den Norske Opera, Komische Oper Berlin); and Der fliegende Holländer (Geneva Wagner Festival, Oper Köln, Seattle Opera, Théâtre de Caen, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg); Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (Angers Nantes Opera, Opéra de Dijon).