Heidi Stober

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Heidi Stober as Ada Leverson and William Burden as Frank Harris in Oscar at Opera Philadelphia, 2015.

Heidi Stober (born 1978, Wisconsin[1]) is an American operatic soprano who has performed leading roles in major opera houses internationally, including the Dutch National Opera, the Garsington Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Municipal Theatre of Santiago, the Semperoper, and the Vienna State Opera. She has been particularly active with the Houston Grand Opera where she has performed in more than a dozen operas since 2004, including the world premieres of Daniel Catán's Salsipuedes: a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies (2004), Mark Adamo's Lysistrata (2005), and Ricky Ian Gordon's The House without a Christmas Tree (2017). She has also performed in more than ten operas with the San Francisco Opera since 2010. Since 2008 she has been a resident artist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she has primarily performed roles from the lyric soprano repertoire. Also active as a concert soprano on the international stage, she has performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest among other orchestras. She is particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Life and career

Born in Wisconsin, Stober grew up in

La Sonnambula at the Milwaukee Opera Theatre.[2] In 2002 and 2003 she was a member of the Young Artist Program at the Central City Opera where she notably portrayed the roles of the First Wife and the First Gossip in the world premiere of Henry Mollicone's Gabriel’s Daughter.[1] In 2003-2004 she was an apprentice soprano in the Utah Symphony and Opera Ensemble Program in Salt Lake City.[1]

In 2004 Stober became a member of the Young Artist program at the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) after winning the HGO's Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers.[1] At the HGO she studied voice with Stephen King. She made her debut with the company as La China in the world premiere of Daniel Catán's Salsipuedes: a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies in October of that year. She has continued to perform regularly with the HGO in roles like The Rose in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince (2004), Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro (2005), Xenia in Boris Godunov (2005), Aphrodite/Charito/Tisiphone in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's Lysistrata (2005), Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (2005, 2006, and 2016), Frasquita in Carmen (2006), Drusilla in L'incoronazione di Poppea (2006), Norina in Don Pasquale (2006), Blonde from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2008), Atalanta in Serse (2010), Musetta in La bohème (2012), Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (2017), and Miss Thompson/Helen Mills/Adelaide Mills in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's The House without a Christmas Tree (2017).

Stober has also had engagements as a guest artist with numerous American opera companies. In 2002 she gave her first performance with the

Il Matrimonio Segreto at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and returned to Santa Fe to perform the role of Tigrane in Handel's Radamisto.[6]

Stober joined the roster of Resident Artists at the

Opera Company of Philadelphia. In 2015 she portrayed Valencienne in The Merry Widow at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 2016 she portrayed Alice B. Toklas in Ricky Ian Gordon's 27 at New York City Center and made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Adina in L'elisir d'amore.[9] In 2017 she made her United Kingdom debut with the Garsington Opera in the title role of Handel's Semele. At the Semperoper in Dresden she has performed the title role in Handel's Alcina
(2016), Micaëla in Carmen (2016) and Adina in L'elisir d'amore (2018).

As a concert soprano, Stober has performed in concerts and recitals internationally. In 2004 she was the soprano soloist in

Gunther Herbig in 2009 and with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2010 with Marek Janowski
.

Stober made her debut with the

A White House Cantata with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.[10]

Stober lives in Berlin.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Rick Peterson (February 16, 2004). "Heidi Stober". Lawrence University News.
  2. ^ a b c d Valerie Sweeten (November 11, 2004). "Faces in the Crowd: Heidi Stober". Houston Chronicle.
  3. ^ A.W. (November 2018). "18 to Watch: Heidi Stober". Opera News.
  4. ^ Allan Kozinn (October 16, 2017). "Pushy Mother Plots to Win Her Son the Top Spot". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Anthony Tommasini (March 7, 2008). "Knights in Shining T-Shirts". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Anthony Tommasini (May 30, 2008). "It Sure Sounds Like That Other Vienna Guy, You Know, a Tough Act to Follow". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Joshua Kosman (October 17, 2018). "At SF Opera, Strauss' 'Arabella' gets a workout but never takes flight". San Francisco Chronicle.
  8. National Public Radio
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  9. ^ "See an opera about Gertrude Stein today and tomorrow at New York City Center". Time Out. October 20, 2016.
  10. ^ Lawrence A. Johnson (February 28, 2018). "Phan's belated entrance provides boost to Music of the Baroque's "Esther"". Chicago Classical Review.

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