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date = "2017-10-29T12:26:00-04:00"
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“Stober’s instrument is the type of distinctly American lyric soprano that makes the rest of the world listen.” Opera News: One to Watch – November 2018

Stunning audiences with her sterling lyric voice and incisive stage personality, soprano Heidi Stober has established herself as a house favourite at leading companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Since her critically acclaimed debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in the autumn of 2008, Heidi has cultivated a long-standing relationship with the company, with recent roles including Donna Elvira _Don Giovanni_, Micaela _Carmen_, Marguerite Faust, Adina _L’elisir d’amore_, and Liu _Turandot_.

Heidi opens the 2021-22 season as Mother/Waitress 2/Spinx 1 in Turnage’s _Greek_ at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she also sings Donna Clara in Zemlinksy’s _Der Zwerg_.  Other highlights of the season include Micaela _Carmen_ for Houston Grand Opera and Fiordiligi _Così fan tutte_ for the Semperoper Dresden. On the concert platform, she performs Haydon’s _Creation Mass_ with Music of the Baroque in Chicago, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Hannover with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Grand Teton Music Festival and Bach’s Mass in B minor, _St John Passion_ and _St Matthew Passion_ at the 2022 Oregon Bach Festival.  Looking further ahead, she will sing Blanche _Les Dialogues des Carmélites_ and reprise the roles of Zdenka _Arabella_ and Musetta _La bohéme_, returning to San Francisco Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as making her house debut at the Teatro Real, Madrid.

During the curtailed 2020-21 and 2019-20 seasons, Heidi appeared as Despina _Così fan tutte_ for the Metropolitan Opera, Gretel for San Francisco Opera and Despina for Staatsoper Hamburg. She also performed a _La Traviata_ and _Carmen_ Opera Highlights concert and selected songs from _Chants d'Auvergne_ by Canteloube with Sir Donald Runnicles at the Grand Teton Music Festival. Other recent appearances include Zdenka _Arabella_ and Angelica _Orlando_ for San Francisco Opera, Dalinda _Ariodante_ for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Antigone in Enescu’s _Oedipe_ for Dutch National Opera (house debut) and a return to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Pamina, Micaëla and Donna Elvira. Other concert appearances included Stravinsky’s _Cantata_ for the LA Phil cond. Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mahler Symphony No. 4 for the Grand Teton Music Festival.

Heidi made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2011/12 season as Gretel _Hansel and Gretel_ conducted by Robin Ticciati, returning to the company in recent years again as Gretel, Pamina _Die Zauberflöte_, Una voca dal cielo _Don Carlos_ and Oscar _Un ballo in maschera_. Heidi also holds strong relationships with San Francisco Opera, where she has performed Norina in Laurent Pelly’s production of _Don Pasquale_, Magnolia _Showboat_, Oscar _Un ballo in maschera_, Johanna _Sweeney Todd_, Nannetta _Falstaff_, Atalanta _Xerxes_, and Susanna _Le nozze di Figaro_, and with Houston Grand Opera, where she has performed Cleopatra Giulio Cesare, Susanna _Le nozze di Figaro_, Musetta _La bohème_, Atalanta _Xerxes_, Miss Thompson/Helen Milla/Adelaide Mills in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s _The House without a Christmas Tree_, Drusilla _L’incoronazione di Poppea_ and Norina _Don Pasquale_, and with Santa Fe Opera, where her roles have included Sandrina _La finta giardiniera_, La Folie _Platée_, Tigrane _Radamisto_, Musetta _La bohème_, Zdenka _Arabella_ and Ada in the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s _Oscar_. Other notable operatic engagements include Valencienne _The Merry Widow_ at the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Sir Andrew Davies and Ada in Theodore Morrison’s _Oscar_ for Opera Philadelphia, title role _Semele_ for Garsington Opera, title role _Alcina_, Micaëla _Carmen_ and Adina _L’elisir d’amore_ for Semperoper Dresden, and for the Wiener Staatsoper.

Highlights on the concert platform include _Messiah_ with the New York Philharmonic, Mozart _Requiem_ and the world premiere of Stephen Hartke’s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Gustavo Dudamel for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart, Anne Trulove _The Rake’s Progress_ with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Barber’s _Knoxville: Summer of 1915_ with the Oslo Philharmonic and with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Baltimore Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Brahms _Requiem_ with the Houston Symphony; Handel _Messiah_ with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, _Carmina Burana_ with the Houston Ballet, Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, and a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.

Heidi Stober’s professional training took place at the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and she holds degrees from LawrenceUniversity and the New England Conservatory.