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Ariadne Greif
Ariadne Greif, praised for her “luminous, expressive voice,” “searing top notes,” and “dusky depths,” (NY Times), started out as a ‘boy’ soprano at the LA Opera, making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in roles ranging from Therese/Tirésias in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, Adina in The Elixir of Love with the Orlando Philharmonic, to Sappho in Atthis by Georg Friedrich Haas, which the NY Times called “one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
She performed a “soaring...spine-chilling” staged recital with Resonant Bodies Australia and the Sydney Chamber Opera, William Kentridge’s Ursonate at Den Norske Opera for the Ultima Festival in Oslo, returning in 2020 with a project of her own, Bird Party. Recent concert performances included Mahler Symphony No. 4, Carmina Burana, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Babbit’s A Solo Requiem. She performed chamber music in Weill Hall, The Park Avenue Armory, The Ojai Festival, across North America, France, Northern Europe, and the Middle East, in appearances with Lukas Ligeti, Gabriel Kahane, Pekka Kuusisto, The Knights, JACK Quartet, among others. She has premiered over a hundred new works and operas.
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