This past season Brenda Rae took on a number of new roles: the title-role in Berg’s Lulu for her debut with the English National Opera in the William Kentridge production, the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Amenaide in Rossini’s Tancredi with Opera Philadelphia and Gilda in a new production of Rigoletto as well as Zdenka in Arabella, both with her home company, Oper Frankfurt. Rae made her La Scala debut in Christmas concerts featuring sacred music by Mozart, and she retured to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for Messiah.

In the summer, she returned to Santa Fe for an exciting role debut: Cunegonde in Candide. Rae’s home company, the Oper Frankfurt, for Gilda in Rigoletto and Amina in La Sonnambula.

Further opera performances included Aminta in Die schweigsame Frau with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with both the Berlin Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper and a return to Ms. Last season began with performances as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte on tour in Japan with the Bayerische Staatsoper, followed by the soprano’s Australian debut in a concert of Rameau arias with the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

Future projects include debuts with the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro Real in Madrid and returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Hamburgische Staatsoper. In recital, Brenda Rae will be heard at Wigmore Hall and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems. She then makes her much-anticipated Lyric Opera of Chicago debut as Ginevra in Ariodante and tours Europe and the United States as Semele with The English Concert and Harry Bicket, before returning to Milan’s La Scala for performances of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos with Franz Welser-Möst. At home in a wide range of repertoire, Brenda has been praised for her “tireless, golden soprano” (The Times), “dazzling, pinpoint coloratura” (Opera News), and “breathtaking mastery” (Frankfurter Rundschau).īrenda Rae’s current season begins with one of her signature-roles, Lucia di Lammermoor, with Opera Philadelphia in a new Laurent Pelly production, followed by her Oper Zürich debut as Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and a return to Oper Frankfurt in a role debut, Elvira in a new production of I Puritani. Soprano Website Facebook Twitter InstagramĪmerican soprano Brenda Rae is a highly sought after artist who regularly performs in many of the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls, and recital venues.

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