Audrey Luna

Grammy award-winning soprano Audrey Luna’s future engagements include her debut at Teatro alla Scala as ARIEL Thomas Adès’ The Tempest, her Teatro Real, Madrid debut as MADAME MAO Nixon in China, Orff’s Catulli Carmina and Carmina Burana Dallas Symphony Orchestra with Mo. Luisi conducting, OPHELIA cover in Brett Dean’s Hamlet Metropolitan Opera and KÖNIGIN DER NACHT Die Zauberflöte (Barrie Kosky production) Des Moines Metro Opera.

Ms. Luna recently set the record for singing the highest written note on the Metropolitan Opera stage, A6, as LETICIA in Thomas Adès’ The Exterminating Angel, which she also performed in the world premiere at the Salzburg Festival and at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Previous productions at the Metropolitan Opera include KÖNIGIN DER NACHT in Julie Taymor’s production of Die Zauberflöte, NAJADE Ariadne auf Naxos, FIAKERMILLI Arabella, OLYMPIA Les contes d’Hoffmann and ARIEL Thomas Adès’ The Tempest. Her performance as ARIEL was released on DVD with Deutsche Grammophon; the DVD was awarded a French Diapason d’Or, and the 2013 Grammy Award for “Best Opera Recording.”

Other recent engagements from the past few seasons include HERMIONE Trojahn’s Orest and KÖNIGIN DER NACHT Die Zauberflöte Wiener Staatsoper, MADAME MAO Nixon in China Houston Grand Opera, KÖNIGIN DER NACHT Komische Oper Berlin at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center, NORINA Don Pasquale Fort Worth Opera, MARIE La Fille du Régiment Hawaii Opera Theater, and VENUS & GEPOPO Le Grand Macabre, conducted by Alan Gilbert, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Philharmonie Essen and Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Ms. Luna has recently appeared on the concert stage with Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and others. Her repertoire for the concert stage includes Brahms’ Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica, Makris’ Symphony for Soprano and Strings, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Ligeti’s Requiem and Le Grande Macabre, George Crumb’s Star Child, Amy Beach’s Grand Mass, and Debussy’s Martyrdom of St. Sebastien.

A new collaboration with composer Peter Eötvös and the Calder Quartet of his new work, The Sirens cycle, toured Europe (Zurich, Frankfurt, Madrid and Paris) and is now available on BMC Records.