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Soprano Christine Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera , New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, 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_, 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 Carmelites_.

Ms. Goerke has also appeared with a number of the leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra (in Boston, Carnegie Hall, and the Tanglewood Festival), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Radio Vara (at the Concertgebouw), 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 worked with some of the world's foremost conductors including James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davies, Sir Mark Elder, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor, James Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Seiji Ozawa, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the late Robert Shaw, Patrick Summers, Jeffery Tate, Christian Thielemann, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Edo de Waart.

Ms. 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 Recording 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 Dvorak'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.

This season, Ms. Goerke returns to the Metropolitan Opera for _Turandot_, the Houston Grand Opera for _Les Dialogues des Carmelites_, and to the Opéra National de Paris for _Elektra_. She also appears in concert with the Bayreuther Festspielorchester on a European tour, and with the Baltimore Symphony.

Ms. Goerke was the recipient of the 2001 Richard Tucker Award, the 2015 MusicalAmerica Vocalist of the Year Award, and the 2017 Opera News Award.