Mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey is one of the most promising voices of her generation and appears regularly in the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, in Aix-en-Provence, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the Bavarian State Opera.
Kate Lindsey once again shows her great diversity in the season 2022–23 with a wide selection of role debuts and new productions. The mezzo-soprano kicks off the season as Prince Idamante in The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Idomeneo. She then returns to the Vienna State Opera for the revival of her acclaimed Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) and to further give her role debut as Penelope in the house premiere of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria under the baton of Pablo-Heras Casado. At Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona Kate Lindsey takes on the lead role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas in the houses’ new production.
A sought-after concert and lied interpreter, Kate Lindsey gives her debut at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg performing Brahms requiem under the baton of Kent Nagano. She further returns to Wigmore Hall in autumn to present a program with pieces of Robert Schumann and Gabriel Faure together with pianist Gary Matthewman and sings her A Thousand Miles program with pianist Baptiste Trotignon at the Festvial des los Angeles in Barcelona.
Highlights of her 2021–22 season include her last-minute jump in at Maggio Musicale in Firenze as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. At Vienna State Opera she gave her acclaimed role debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and further performed her praised interpretation of Nerone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea. She took on the lead role of La Musica and La Speranza in the houses’ premiere of L’Orfeo under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado. At the London Coliseum Kate Lindsey took on the lead role Offred in the houses’ premiere of Paul Ruder’s The Handmaid’s Tale which brought her international attention before she finished her season at the Salzburg Festival taking on the lead role of Dido in a concert version of Dido and Aeneas alongside musicAeterna under the baton of Teodor Currentzis.
Highlights of the season 2020–21 included Lindsey’s house debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milano where she performed in a Kurt Weil double bill of Mahagonny Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden taking on both lead roles Jessie and Anna. As a very popular and celebrated guest artist of the Vienna State Opera Lindsey took on the role of Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) and jumped in on short notice in Frank Castorfs new production of Charles Gounod’s Faust performing the role of Siébel, which was produced as an international livestream.
Featuring the program from her album Thousands of Miles, which was released in May 2017 by alpha records, Lindsey and pianist Baptiste Trotignon engaged on a tour with concerts at the Hartt School of Music, the University of Richmond Modlin Center for the Arts, the Pablo Center at the Confluence in Eau Claire (Wisconsin), at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, the University of Maryland Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Spivey Hall of Clayton State University in Georgia, as well as in Bremen (Germany). Further concerts have taken them to the stages of Teatro all Scala in Milano as well as made them welcomed guests at various European festivals: Pulsation Festival Bordeaux, Bergerac Festival and many more.
Highlights of former seasons include the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s commissioned composition Orlando, which was composed especially for Kate Lindsey in the title role at the Vienna State Opera. At The MET she starred as Nerone in Handel’s Agrippina, a production which finds its US premiere in New York, alongside Joyce DiDonato, which hailed great acclaim from the press and public. Further highlights include the title role of Miranda in a new production at Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris, Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Nerone in the ravishing new production of Monteverdi’s L´incoronazione di Poppea under the baton of William Christie at the Salzburg Festival, Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Washington National Opera, Muse/Nicklausse in Les contes d’Hoffmann at The Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera. On the concert stage, Kate Lindsey performed with the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock in Paris, Palma de Mallorca, Vienna, Prague and Dresden. Further engagements included Lazuli in Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’étoile at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Leonora in Donizetti’s La favorite at Washington Concert Opera, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and concert performances of Purcell´s Dido and Aeneas with Balthasar Neumann Ensemble under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock at Hamburg´s Laeiszhalle and the Rheingau Musik Festival.
A sought-after concert performer, Lindsey has stood on the greatest stages with renowned orchestras and conductors. She starred in the BBC Proms with performances of Korngold’s Tomorrow at the Royal Albert Hall with the John Wilson Orchestra before joining the Berliner Philharmoniker in performances of Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette under Daniel Harding as part of Musikfest Berlin. As an accomplished concert singer, Lindsey sang the premiere performances of a new commission by John Harbison with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared with the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, The Met Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Cercle de l’Harmonie in Europe, and at the Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals. She has worked with many of the world’s most distinguished conductors, including Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Emmanuelle Haïm, Vladimir Jurowski, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, Jérémie Rhorer and Franz Welser-Möst. In recital, she has been presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rockefeller University in New York City. Lindsey has been featured in The Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcast of Les contes d’Hoffmann, La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte (which was subsequently released on DVD). Her CD Follow Poet (of songs by Mohammed Farouz) was released by Deutsche Grammophon.
Kate Lindsey is recording exclusively for Outhere Music France. Her first solo album, Thousands of Miles, with works by Kurt Weill, Korngold and Zemlinsky, was released in May 2017. Her second album Arianna, released in January 2020, features the Arcangelo orchestra conducted by Jonathan Cohen with Scarlatti, Handel and Haydn and was met with rave reviews all over the world. In May 2021, Lindsey’s third album, and second baroque recital album, Tiranno, was released concentrating on the character of Nero including pieces of Scarletti, Handel and Monteverdi and also featuring world premiere recordings of cantatas by Alessando Scarlatti and Bartolomeo Monari. The album is the second collaboration with the artist and the British ensemble Arcangelo under the musical direction of Jonathan Cohen. The album had great success and made Gramophone magazine conclude that Tiranno is a "model of what a recital album can be."
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Lindsey holds a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction from Indiana University and is a graduate of The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Her many awards include a 2011 grant from the Festival Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot, the 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, the 2007 George London Award in memory of Lloyd Rigler, the 2007 Lincoln Center Martin E. Segal Award and a 2006 Sullivan Foundation Grant.