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August 16 & 17 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Photo: Simon Pauly 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. In more
recent seasons, she sang Blanche in Les Dialogues
des Carmélites and reprised the roles of Zdenka in
Arabella and Musetta in 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,
Stober appeared as Despina in 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 in Arabella and Angelica in Orlando
for San Francisco Opera; Dalinda in Ariodante for the
Lyric Opera of Chicago; Antigone in Enescu’s Œdipe
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 Philharmonic,
conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Mahler’s
Symphony No. 4 for Grand Teton Music Festival.
Heidi Stober Highlights on the concert platform include Messiah

Soprano/Pamina with the New York Philharmonic; Mozart’s Requiem
and the world premiere of Stephen Hartke’s Symphony
No. 4 conducted by Gustavo Dudamel for the Los
Stunning audiences with her sterling lyric voice and Angeles Philharmonic; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with
incisive stage personality, soprano Heidi Stober has the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo
established herself as a house favorite at leading de Waart; Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with the
companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Since her St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Barber’s Knoxville:
critically acclaimed debut at the Deutsche Oper Summer of 1915 with the Oslo Philharmonic and with
Berlin in the autumn of 2008, Stober has cultivated the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Beethoven’s
a long-standing relationship with the company, with Symphony No. 9 with the Baltimore Symphony, the
recent roles including Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and with the
Micaëla in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, Adina in Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Brahms’ Requiem
L’elisir d’amore and Liù in Turandot. with the Houston Symphony; Handel’s Messiah with
Stober opened the 2021-22 season as Mother/ the Hong Kong Philharmonic; Carmina Burana with
Waitress 2/Sphinx 1 in Turnage’s Greek at the Deutsche the Houston Ballet; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the
Oper Berlin, where she also sang Donna Clara in Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Mark
Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg. Other highlights of the season Wigglesworth; and a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.
included Micaëla in Carmen for Houston Grand Opera Stober’s professional training took place at the
and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte for the Semperoper Houston Grand Opera Studio, and she holds
Dresden. On the concert platform, she performed degrees from Lawrence University and the
Haydn’s Creation with Music of the Baroque in New England Conservatory.
Chicago; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Hannover with
the NDR Radiophilharmonie; Mahler’s Symphony www.heidistober.com

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