Kirsten Chambers

Kirsten Chambers

Kirsten Chambers is an American operatic soprano. Born in Santa Rosa, California, she has performed in leading opera houses throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival, New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Opera Hong Kong, among many others.

Early years

Chambers was raised in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received degrees from Illinois Wesleyan University and the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.

Professional career

Chambers made her Metropolitan Opera house debut on short notice in 2016 in the title role of Salome.[1] Her Carnegie Hall debut came on just two days' notice when she sang the role of Maria in Richard Strauss' Friedenstag with Leon Botstein conducting the American Symphony Orchestra. Her 2016/17 season started when she joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera as a cover of Isolde in Tristan und Isolde.

Upcoming engagements for 2017/18 include Infanta in Der Zwerg with Odyssey Opera[2] in Boston, the Angel in Angels in America for New York City Opera,[3] Erwartung with The Orchestra Now, and the title role of Salome with Florida Grand Opera.

Kirsten Chambers

In the 2015/16 season she debuted as Foreign Princess in Rusalka at Lyric Opera of Kansas City and Leonore in Fidelio for the grand opening of New Amsterdam Opera.[4] For her performance at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City,[5] she "sang convincingly as the beautiful, conniving Foreign Princess, without sacrificing great vocal sounds for characterization." (The Examiner)

Her 2014/15 season began with her debut in the title role of Salome at Opera Hong Kong, where "the depth of her performance grew widely as she exhibited the fitness of an athlete... The dramatic colour exhibited throughout her middle range and the defined delicacy of her high notes easy won the audience over." (Opera Chaser)[6] For Opéra de Rennes, she reprised the role of Elsa in Lohengrin, described as "delicious with beautiful legato and radiant high notes." (Opéra Magazine)

For 2013/14, she made her European debut with Savonlinna Opera Festival as Elsa in Lohengrin. Opera Magazine described her performance as "Kirsten Chambers... wielded the evening's most convincing dramatic arc, her character maturing from innocent young girl to emotionally complex woman in the course of the story." She also appeared as a featured soloist in excerpts from Lohengrin with the Oulu Symphony in both Oulu and Helsinki and later at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg in promotional concerts for Savonlinna Opera Festival. Chambers reprised the role of Elsa in Lohengrin for the Hong Kong Arts Festival. In concert she performed Isolde's "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Brünnhilde's Entrance from Die Walküre with Orchestra Kentucky.

Chambers' 2011/12 season started with a cover of the title role of Turandot with Arizona Opera and a concert performance of the title role of Tosca with Opera Saratoga. She made her Lincoln Center debut starring in the soprano monodrama Nora, in the Great Outdoors with American Opera Projects. She has appeared with Toledo Opera to cover the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos and sang Nedda in Pagliacci with Bronx Opera. A champion of new music, Chambers has been recorded on the Newport Classics Label and appeared numerous times with American Lyric Theater and American Opera Projects.

Since 2004, she is married to the American conductor and opera administrator Keith Chambers.

References

  1. ↑ "Kirsten Chambers to make Met debut tonight in Strauss' Salome". www.operawire.com.
  2. ↑ "Odyssey Opera's Cast List for Der Zwerg". www.odysseyopera.org.
  3. ↑ "Voice of an Angel: UH Alumna Lands Role in New York City Opera".
  4. ↑ "New Amsterdam Opera's Cast List for Fidelio". www.newamsterdamopera.org.
  5. ↑ "Lyric Opera of Kansas City's Cast List for Rusalka". www.kcopera.org.
  6. ↑ "Opera Hong Kong's eerily contemporary Salome". www.operachaser.blogspot.com.
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