Hailed as possessing “such a radiant voice, effortless even in the highest register with breathtaking coloratura, the likes of which have not been heard for a long time” (Berliner Umschau), Liv Redpath is a leading soprano leggero who is quickly establishing herself in diverse operatic and symphonic repertoire around the world.
This season, soprano Liv Redpath has orchestral engagements with the San Francisco Symphony and Seattle Symphony for Fauré's Requiem led by Kazuki Yamada; Radio Filharmonisch Orkest for Grieg's Peer Gynt joining Stéphane Denève and later touring with the orchestra to the Lucerne Festival performing Boulez's Le Soleil des Eaux with Karina Canellakis; Danish Symphony Orchestra singing the Mozart Great Mass in C minor under the baton of Manfred Honeck; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Debussy's La Damoiselle élue with George Benjamin on the podium; Les Violons du Roy as soloist in Handel's Messiah and Kansas City Symphony for Mozart's Requiem both conducted by Bernard Labadie; and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with NDR Vokalensemble in Mozart's Davide penitente led by Klaas Stok. She debuts with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia to sing Agnès in Written on Skin with Maestro Benjamin and Opera Omaha as Anne Truelove in the David Hockney production of Stravinky's The Rake's Progress. She returns to The Santa Fe Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Laurent Pelly directing and Harry Bicket on the podium; Bayerische Staatsoper in her signature role of Sophie in the Barrie Kosky production of Der Rosenkavalier reuniting with conductor Vladimir Jurowski; La Monnaie/De Munt as the Stimme eines Waldvogels in Siegfried directed by Pierre Audi and conducted by Alain Altinoglu, where she will also present a recital and gala concert. Additional appearances include the Orchestra of St. Luke's season opening concert of their Chamber Music Series at Weill Hall in music of Strauss, Grieg, and Schubert; Boston Youth Symphony to sing the Voce dal ciel in Don Carlo; a Pacific Palisades concert with pianist David Kaplan and violinist YuEun Gemma Kim in music of Brahms, Copland, and Shaw; and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival for the season opening night concert and a recital with pianist George Fu.
Ms. Redpath has performed with the Metropolitan Opera, Berliner Philharmoniker, Glyndebourne Festival, The Cleveland Symphony, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Los Angeles Opera, The English Concert, Staatsoper Hamburg, Bregenzer Festspiele, Komische Oper Berlin, Edinburgh Festival, and Atlanta Opera, collaborating with conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kirill Petrenko, Fabio Luisi, Vasily Petrenko, James Gaffigan, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, William Christie, Emmanuel Villaume, Barbara Hannigan, Thomas Hengelbrock, and Christophe Rousset. Her wide-ranging operatic repertoire includes Lucia di Lammermoor, Les Huguenots, Hänsel und Gretel, Ariadne auf Naxos, Béatrice et Bénédict, Orphée et Eurydice, Dido and Aeneas, Cendrillon, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Les mamelles de Tirésias, The Golden Cockerel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Candide, and L’enfant et les sortilèges. Her orchestral and chamber assignments have included Messiah (Handel), Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), “Lord Nelson” Mass (Haydn), Mass in C Major (Beethoven), Songs of Ascent (Kirchner), Requiem (Mozart), La resurrezione (Handel), String Quartet #2 (Schoenberg), Philomel (Babbitt), Gloria (Poulenc), and Hodie (Vaughan-Williams).
She received a 2021 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year from concert performances as Crobyle in Thaïs, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, released on the Chandos label.
Ms Redpath is a graduate of Harvard University and The Juilliard School.
