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, Canadian Opera Company, 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 R. Strauss and Wagner roles. She has also appeared with many 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 Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival. Christine's recording of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra won the 2003 GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Recording and Best Choral Performance. Her close association with Robert Shaw yielded several recordings, which include of Brahms’s 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 Iphigenie en Tauride for Telarc and Britten’s War Requiem, which won the 1999 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance. Christine is the Associate Artistic Director of Detroit Opera (formerly Michigan Opera Theatre). She was 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

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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.

In the 2022–23 season, Alfred Walker returns to San Francisco Opera as Enobarbus in the world premiere of John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra, joins the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Vater in Hänsel und Gretel, returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni, sings Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the LA Philharmonic, and joins the Boston Philharmonic for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Last season’s credits included Scarpia in Tosca (San Francisco Opera); Crown in Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); Mtchll in It All Falls Down / Written in Stone (Washington National Opera); Nilakantha in Lakmé (Washington Concert Opera); and Tom in Un ballo in maschera (Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Walker’s recent credits include Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana (Detroit Opera); Vater in Hänsel und Gretel and Orest in Elektra (San Francisco Opera); Oroveso in Norma (Boston Lyric Opera); the title role in Der fliegende Holländer (Theater Basel, Oper Köln, Seattle Opera, Théâtre de Caen, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Boston Lyric Opera, and the Wagner Geneva Festival); Titurel in Parsifal and the Speaker in The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera); Amonasro in Aida and Porgy in Porgy and Bess (Seattle Opera); Amfortas in Parsifal and Amonasro in Aida (Theater Basel); the title role of Josh Gibson in the world premiere of Daniel Sonenberg’s The Player King (Pittsburgh Opera); and Allazim in Peter Sellars’s production of Zaide (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Wiener Festwochen, London’s Barbican Centre, and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival). Walker, a New Orleans native, is a graduate of Dillard University, Loyola University, and the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program. He is the recipient of awards from the George London Foundation, Palm Beach Opera Competition, Houston Opera Studio’s Eleanor McCollum Competition, and the Sullivan Foundation career grant.