Opera Innovators Series: Christine Goerke
Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto.
She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with Mozart and Handel heroines and now earning critical acclaim for dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. She has received praise for her portrayals of the title roles in Elektra, Turandot, and Ariadneauf 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 Carmélites, among others.
This season, Goerke returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Washington National Opera, and also performs with Hamburg State Opera, New World Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra. She recently joined Boston
Lyric Opera’s Board of Directors, having previously served as associate artistic director at the Detroit Opera.
Christine Goerke is presented as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Opera Innovators Series in partnership with the Boston Lyric Opera.