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Michèle Crider is one of today’s preeminent dramatic sopranos. In the past two seasons she returned to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, to the Vienna State Opera as Tosca, to Budapest and Mannheim as Leonora in La forza del destino, to Essen in the title role of Norma. She made her Lisbon debut with Verdi’s Messa da requiem, was Tosca at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, and the Prague State Opera, was in Tel Aviv as Leonora in Il trovatore and as La giocconda, in Essen and Lecce as Aida, in Hamburg as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. Ms. Crider was heard with the Jerusalem Symphony in Verdi’s Messa da requiem, opened the 2008-2009 season with Madama Butterfly at the Los Angeles Opera, under the baton of James Conlon, followed by Tosca for the Vienna State Opera, both Odabella in Attila and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. Ms. Crider was heard with the Jerusalem Symphony in Verdi’s Messa da requiem, opened the 2008-2009 season with Madama Butterfly at the Los Angeles Opera, under the baton of James Conlon, followed by Tosca for the Vienna State Opera, both Odabella in Attila and Amelia in Un ballo in maschera for the Hamburg State Opera, and Margherita in Mefistofele and the title role of Tosca in Tel Aviv. She also went on tour with the Prauge State Opera as Aida in Japan. Recent engagements include Verdi’s Messa da requiem with the Toronto Symphony and Britten’s War Requiem with Hamburger Symphoniker. Next season she will perform with the Vienna State Opera in La Forza Del Destino and Tosca, at the Classic Openair Solothurn in Il trovatore, Tosca, and La Forza Destino. We also look forward to her performance at the Israeli Opera as Elvira in Ernani, as well as a roll and house debut at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in Otello as Desdemona at the Rostropovich Music Festival.
From her debut in 1991, Ms. Crider has been heard regularly in the world’s great opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Convent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Vienna State Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Arena di Verona, the Hamburg State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, the Rome Opera, the Zurich Opera, and the Liceu in Barcelona, among many others.
Miss Crider enjoys a successful concert career. She has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in Orange, Ravenna and Edinburgh, at the Royal Albert Hall London, Carnegie Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Savonlinna, the Salle Pleyel and Barbican Hall in London with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. She has performed with today’s greatest conductors: Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Sir Colin Davis.
Miss Crider studied voice at the University of Iowa and subsequently in Zurich, where she continued her studies at the studio of the Zurich Opera House. In 1988 she was the finalist of the Luciano Pavarotti competition. In 1989 she won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition, which led to her professional debut as Leonora in Il trovatore in Dortmund.
Miss Crider has recorded Amelia in Un ballo in maschera for Teldec under Carlo Rizzi, Elena and Margherita in Mefistofele with conductor Riccardo Muti for BMG Classics, Verdi's Requiem under Richard Hickox with the London Symphony Orchestra for Chandos Records and the role of Gerhilde in Die Walküre on Decca with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra.
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