Amanda Majeski   

Internationally renowned American soprano Amanda Majeski is a celebrated interpreter of Mozart, Strauss, Wagner and Handel. She is also highly acclaimed for her portrayal of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová, making her debut with that role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Best New Opera Production at the 2019 Olivier Awards), and having been described as “Katya of the moment”, following the London Symphony Orchestra concert performance conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in 2023.

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Amanda begins the 2025-2026 season with an exciting role debut at the BBC Proms, singing the title role in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. She returns to Oper Frankfurt, as Marta in The Passenger, sings the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with New Orleans Opera, and joins the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Edward Gardner for Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater & Mahler’s 4th Symphony. Future seasons include her return to London’s Royal Opera House.

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The 2024-2025 season included an anticipated return to the role of Strauss’ Salome with Semperoper Dresden, where she was previously a member of the ensemble. She also joined the Madison Symphony for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mozart’s Requiem, as well as celebrated the centennial of her alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music, both in residence as a visiting instructor, and in recital for a special gala performance.

For the 2023-2024 season, the soprano made house returns to the Semperoper Dresden, singing Káťa in a Calixto Bieto production conducted by Alejo Pérez, and to Teatro Real Madrid, reprising Marta in the Spanish premiere of The Passenger. She also gave a recital under the auspices of the Curtis Institute of Music, as part of Opera Philadelphia’s O23 Festival, and returned to Tanglewood as Gutrune in Act 3 of Götterdämmerung, conducted by Andris Nelsons. 

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Ms. Majeski made her Metropolitan Opera debut on the opening night of the 2014-2015 season as Countess Almaviva in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by James Levine, which was broadcast in HD internationally and on PBS across the United States. Since then, she has returned for revivals of Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, both conducted by Fabio Luisi, and a new production of Così fan tutte conducted by David Robertson which was a featured HD broadcast in the 2017-2018 season. An alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, she made her mainstage Lyric debut with only a few hours’ notice as Countess Almaviva conducted by Andrew Davis. Named “Best Breakout Star” by Chicago Magazine, she has since continued her relationship with Lyric audiences as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier and as Marta in The Passenger, hailed as a “shattering, star-making performance” by the Chicago Classical Review.

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She made her critically-acclaimed role debut as the Marschallin in Claus Guth’s new production at Oper Frankfurt, where she has also been seen as the Goose-Girl in Humperdinck’s Königskinder, Vreli in Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet, and the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka. Ms. Majeski made her European debut at the Semperoper Dresden where her performances included new productions of Alcinaand La clemenza di Tito, as well as revivals of Le nozze di Figaro and Capriccio. Her significant international debuts include De Nederlandse Opera, as Donna Elvira; Teatro Real Madrid, as Third Norn and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Vitellia; the Glyndebourne Festival, as Countess Almaviva and Eva; Opernhaus Zürich as Marguerite in a new production of Faust; Opéra de Paris as  Vitellia; and Staatsoper Stuttgart as the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride. She made her debuts at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing as Eva in Kasper Holten’s new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and her debut at Teatro Colónas Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare. Her US career also includes performances with Opera Philadelphia as Donna Elvira, Pittsburgh Opera as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, and her Washington National Opera debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Ms. Majeski’s long-standing relationship with the Santa Fe Opera includes her debut in Vivaldi’s Griselda as Ottone in a production by Peter Sellars, subsequently appearing as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Countess Madeleine in Capriccio and her first performances of the Composer in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos to rave reviews.

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On the concert stage, Ms. Majeski made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic as Gutrune in Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerungconducted by Jaap van Zweden, which was released commercially on Naxos Records as the final installment of their Ring Cycle. She has appeared with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic as the title role in Káťa Kabanová, conducted by Karina Canellakis; Boston Symphony Orchestra, for Britten’s War Requiem conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, and in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at Tanglewood; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; and sang her first performances of Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder at Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall with the Curtis Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis, a work she has also performed with the Nürnberger Symphoniker. She debuted with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart, the Colorado Symphony for Britten’s War Requiem, Sinfonieorchester Aachen singing Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder and Mozart’s Requiem, has been heard in concert singing Agathe’s arias from Der Freischütz with conductor Erik Nielsen and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the soprano solo in Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Quad City Symphony. She also sang Gounod’s Marguerite in concert with Washington Concert Opera under Antony Walker, Bach’s Magnificat under Sir Gilbert Levine in Chicago, Mahler’s 4th Symphony with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and the title role in Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka at the Bard Music Festival. She made her New York City recital debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation and returned for her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014.

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Majeski holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University. She was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Steans Institute at Ravinia. Awards include the George London Foundation Award, first prize of the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, and a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.