Michèle Crider is one of today’s preeminent dramatic sopranos of her generation. She has been making her mark on both the operatic and concert stages of the world in a remarkably wide repertoire.

Miss Crider studied voice at the University of Iowa. She won the District Metropolitan Opera Auditions twice. Afterwards she left Iowa and went to 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 one of the three first prizes at the Geneva International Music Competition. This prize directly led to her engagement as Leonora in Il Trovatore in Dortmund and to her participation in the International Grand Prix, which she then won.

Since 1991 Miss Crider has been heard regularly in the world’s great opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Convent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, the Staatsoper Berlin, the State Opera Houses in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, the Arena di Verona, Rome, Zurich, Barcelona and Madrid. Miss Crider has enjoyed 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 been collaborated with today’s greatest conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Sir Colin Davis.

In 2007-2008 Miss Crider was heard at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, in Budapest, National Theatre Mannheim, Fundacao Calouste Gulbikian in Lisboa, with the Hamburger Symphony Orchestra, at the Deutsche Opera / Rhein, at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv- where Miss Crider was making a remarkable roll debut as Gioconda ! Future engagements include her returns to the State Operas of Vienna and Hamburg, the Israeli Opera, the Los Angeles Opera and her house debut at the State Opera of Budapest!

June, 2008

Long version of Michèle’s biography