Michèle Crider
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.
Ms. 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.
Ms. Crider has been heard regularly in the world’s great opera houses, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and the state opera houses in Vienna, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg, La Scala in Milan, the Arena di Verona, Zurich Opera House, Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bastille Paris, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and Amsterdam.
The artist made her US debut in a new production of AIDA in San Diego in 1996!
As a concert singer, Michèle Crider has performed at the Salzburg Festival, in Orange, Ravenna, Edinburgh, the Royal Albert Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salle Pleyel and the Barbican Centre in London with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Orchestre Nationale de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.
She has worked with great conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Nello Santi, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Semyon Bychkov, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly and Colin Davis during her extraordinary career.
The soprano’s repertoire includes the roles of Leonora in IL TROVATORE and LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, Amelia in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, Elvira in ERNANI, Elisabeth in DON CARLO, the title roles in LUISA MILLER, AIDA, MADAMA BUTTERFLY, TOSCA, NORMA, MANON LESCAUT, LA GIOCONDA, Odabella in ATTILA, Lucrezia in I DUE FOSCARI, Giselda in I LOMBARDI, Imogene in IL PIRATA, Margherita/Elena in MEFISTOFELE, Santuzza in CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and Desdemona in OTELLO!
Since 2012, the artist has been teaching singing at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
