American soprano Amanda Majeski holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University, and was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center.

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In 2019, Majeski added a new dimension to her career with her standout performance as the title role in Káťa Kabanová at Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2019, which won Best New Opera Production at that year’s Olivier Awards. Of that performance, The Times declared: “If there is a more compelling solo performance on the operatic stage this year than Amanda Majeski’s in the title role of Janacek’s opera, I will need a new stock of superlatives. I unhesitatingly say that you are unlikely to encounter a Katya more profoundly acted than by the American soprano, nor more strikingly sung.”

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Amanda Majeski’s 2022-2023 season brings an exciting role debut as Strauss’ Salome, which she will sing with Madison Opera in her home state of Wisconsin. She returns to the title role of Káťa Kabanová with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, sings Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony with Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra, and performs Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Tanglewood Music Festival with conductor Susanna Mälkki.

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Highlights of the soprano’s 2021-2022 season included the title role in Káťa Kabanová with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, conducted by Karina Canellakis; Britten’s War Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano; her debut at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, singing Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; and a return to Teatro Real Madrid, appearing as the Third Norn and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

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Her COVID-19 impacted 2020-2021 season planned to feature an array of exciting debuts and collaborations. Performed highlights included the soprano’s return to Opéra de Paris, singing Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, an appearance with Madison Opera for the return of its wildly popular Opera in the Park concert, and appearances with Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Harris Theater for virtual performance programs. Additional plans for the season, unfortunately cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic, included: Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons, Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with Boston’s acclaimed Handel & Haydn Society, conducted by Harry Bicket; her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons; the 3rd Norn and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, conducted by Jaap Van Zweden; a continued exploration of Janáček’s operas, making her role debut as Jenůfa at Welsh National Opera; a return to her hugely acclaimed portrayal of Káťa Kabanová in a company debut with the Canadian Opera Company; and her return to the Metropolitan Opera as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  

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Ms. Majeski made her Metropolitan Opera debut on the opening night of the 2014-2015 season as Countess Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by James Levine, which was broadcast in HD internationally and on PBS across the United States. Since then, she has returned for revivals of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, both conducted by Fabio Luisi, and a new production of Così fan tutte conducted by David Robertson which was a featured HD broadcast in the 2017-2018 season. An alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, she made her mainstage Lyric debut with only a few hours’ notice as Countess Almaviva conducted by Andrew Davis. Named “Best Breakout Star” by Chicago Magazine, she has since continued her relationship with Lyric audiences as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and as Marta in The Passenger, hailed as a “shattering, star-making performance” by the Chicago Classical Review.

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She made her critically-acclaimed role debut as the Marschallin in Claus Guth’s new production of Der Rosenkavalier at Oper Frankfurt, where she has also been seen as the Goose-Girl in Humperdinck’s Königskinder, Vreli in Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet, and the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka. Ms. Majeski made her European debut at the Semperoper Dresden where her performances included new productions of Alcina and La clemenza di Tito, as well as revivals of Le nozze di Figaro and Capriccio. Her significant international debuts include the Glyndebourne Festival as Countess Almaviva and Eva, Opernhaus Zürich as Marguerite in a new production of Faust, as well as the Paris Opera and Teatro Real as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, and Staatsoper Stuttgart as the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride. She made her debuts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing as Eva in Kasper Holten’s new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and her debut at Teatro Colón as Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Her US career also includes performances with Opera Philadelphia as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Pittsburgh Opera as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, and her Washington National Opera debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Ms. Majeski’s long-standing relationship with the Santa Fe Opera includes her debut in Vivaldi’s Griselda as Ottone in a production by Peter Sellars, subsequently appearing as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Capriccio and her first performances of the Composer in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos to rave reviews.

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On the concert stage, Ms. Majeski made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic as Gutrune in Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung conducted by Jaap van Zweden which will be released commercially on Naxos Records as the final installment of their Ring Cycle. She has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and sang her first performances of Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder at Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall with the Curtis Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis, a work she has also performed with the Nürnberger Symphoniker. She debuted with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart, the Colorado Symphony for Britten’s War Requiem, Sinfonieorchester Aachen singing Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Mozart’s Requiem, has been heard in concert singing Agathe’s arias from Der Freischütz with conductor Erik Nielsen and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the soprano solo in Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Quad City Symphony. She also sang Gounod’s Marguerite in concert with Washington Concert Opera under Antony Walker, Bach’s Magnificat under Sir Gilbert Levine in Chicago, Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and the title role in Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka at the Bard Music Festival. She made her New York City recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation and returned for her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014.

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Awards include the George London Foundation Award, first prize of the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, and a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.