Christine Goerke
About this Artist
Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in major opera houses around the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Teatro Real in Madrid, and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, starting with the Mozart and 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, Marie in Wozzeck, 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.
Goerke has also appeared with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic , Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, 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 also toured Europe with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
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 Album 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 Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Other recordings include the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride and Britten’s War Requiem, which won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
This season, Goerke returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and as Marie in concert performances of Die tote Stadt, and the Washington National Opera for an evening of Wagner highlights at the Kennedy Center. She also sings Marie in Wozzeck at the Hamburg State Opera and appears in concert with the New World Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Goerke has served as Associate Artistic Director of the Detroit Opera and was the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 Musical America Vocalist of the Year Award, and the 2017 Opera News Award.
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