Christine Goerke

Soprano Christine Goerke is the recipient of the Richard Tucker Award, Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year Award, the Opera News Award, and multiple Grammys. Highlights of her 2026–27 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera and Washington National Opera for the world premieres of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo and Christopher Tin’s O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky. On the concert stage, she returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago for Wagner: Myth & Music, performs the Götterdämmerung Immolation Scene with New World Symphony, sings Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the University of Michigan’s Musical Society, and makes her Princeton Symphony Orchestra debut. Internationally acclaimed for her commanding portrayals of the dramatic heroines of Wagner and Strauss, Goerke has appeared at many of the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Teatro Real, and Houston Grand Opera. Her signature roles include Brünnhilde, Elektra, Turandot, Ariadne, Kundry (Parsifal), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Leonora (Fidelio), Eboli (Don Carlos), and Die Färberin (Die Frau ohne Schatten). A celebrated concert artist, she has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Highlights from her acclaimed discography include Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Britten’s War Requiem.