| CHRISTINE
GOERKE is also the 2001 AWARDEE of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation.
Soprano Christine Goerke has established an outstanding reputation in
the seasons since her professional debut.
This past summer, Ms. Goerke returned to the Tanglewood Festival for
a performance of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Seiji
Ozawa, as well as Le Festival de Lanaudière for a performance
of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. She also performed the role
of Musetta in a concert version of La Bohème at the
Hollywood Bowl and returned to the Saito Kinen Festival as Ellen Orford
in Peter Grimes. This season Ms. Goerke can be seen again as
Ellen at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues
des Carmélites at the Metropolitan Opera, Musetta at the
Pittsburgh Opera, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Opéra
National de Paris (Bastille), and sings the title role in Norma
at the Seattle Opera. She also returns to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
Last season, Ms. Goerke made exciting debuts at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden, the Pittsburgh Opera, and Opera Pacific as Donna Anna
in their respective new productions of Don Giovanni. She also
made her role debut as Elettra in the Opéra National de Paris’
new production of Idomeneo and returned to Japan as Donna Elvira
in the final production of a series of Mozart/da Ponte operas staged
by the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-Juku Opera Project. As part of this same series,
Ms. Goerke has performed the roles of the Countess in Le nozze di
Figaro and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte.
An alumna of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development
Program, Ms. Goerke has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Donna
Elvira and as the Third Norn in Götterdämmerung with
James Levine. Other past opera engagements have included the Female
Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia and the title role in Iphigénie
en Tauride at Glimmerglass Opera; Armida in Rinaldo at
the New York City Opera, Fiordiligi at the Houston Grand Opera, Madame
Lidoine at the Saito Kinen Festival and the Santa Fe Opera; and Vitellia
in La clemenza di Tito and Alice Ford in Falstaff
at the Opéra National de Paris (Bastille).
On the concert platform, Ms. Goerke has appeared with a number of the
leading orchestras including: the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics,
the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, the Boston,
National, Houston, New World and Sydney Symphonies, as well as the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment. In both opera and concerts, Ms. Goerke
continues to work with some of the world’s foremost conductors
including James Conlon, Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter
Flor, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta,
Seiji Ozawa, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the late Robert Shaw (with whom she
ad an extensive collaboration), Leonard Slatkin, Patrick Summers, Michael
Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart. Her concert repertoire includes such
diverse pieces as Strauss’ Four Last Songs, Vaughan Williams’
A Sea Symphony, Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Schumann’s
Das Paradies und die Peri, Britten’s War Requiem,
Mahler’s Das klagende Lied, and Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 9. She also performed the role of Gutrune in concert performance
of Götterdämmerung with Edo de Waart and the Sydney
Symphony as part of the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.
Ms. Goerke made her New York recital debut in December 1998 at Carnegie
Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Recently, she has given recitals in
Washington, DC and at Le Festival de Lanaudière.
Her recent recording of the title role in Gluck’s Iphigénie
en Tauride was released on Telarc to critical acclaim and her recording
of the Britten War Requiem won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best
Choral Performance. Ms. Goerke's extensive association with Robert Shaw
included recordings of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes,
Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, and Szymanowski’s Stabat
Mater for Telarc. She is also featured on Maestro Shaw’s
Grammy-nominated last recording of Dvorák’s Stabat
Mater.
In addition to the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, Ms. Goerke has won several
study grants through the Richard Tucker Foundation and has been honored
with a George London award, as well as the prestigious Birgit Nilsson
prize.
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