Grammy award winning soprano Audrey Luna regularly performs on the world’s greatest stages including the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House – Covent Garden, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Den Norske Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Cleveland Orchestra, Opera Hong Kong, Berlin Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival, Teatro la Fenice, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, London Symphony, and Carnegie Hall.
Audrey Luna made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the Queen of the Night in Julie Taymor’s production of Die Zauberflöte, and continued with roles such as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Fiakermilli in Arabella, and Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffmann. Ms. Luna recently set the record for singing the highest written note on the Metropolitan Opera stage, A6, during the American premiere production of Thomas Adès’ new opera The Exterminating Angel, in the role Leticia, which she also created in the world premiere at the Salzburg Festival. In her triumphant performance of Ariel in The Tempest at The Metropolitan Opera, both musically and physically, working with choreographer Crystal Pite, The New York Times said: “Mr. Adès’s Ariel is a dazzling creation, and Ms. Luna conquers the role.” Her performance as Ariel in this production of The Tempest is available on DVD with Deutsche Grammphon; the DVD was awarded a French Diapason d’Or, and the 2013 Grammy Award for “Best Opera Recording.”
The 2021-22 season includes her return to Des Moines Metro Opera as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, her debut with Barcelona Symphony as soprano soloist in the Mahler 4th Symphony and Hans Abrahamsen’s Let Me Tell You, and her debut with La Scala as Ariel in The Tempest.
The 2022-23 season includes her debut with Orchestre de Paris as soprano soloist in Boulez’s Le Visage Nuptial, her debut with Teatro Real as Madame Mao in Nixon in China and her return to The Dallas Symphony as soprano soloist in Orff’s Carmina Burana and Catulli Carmina, conducted by Fabio Luisi.
The 2018-19 season included returns to the Vienna State Opera as Hermione in Manfred Trojahn’s Orest and Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte für Kinder, Irish National Opera as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, her debut with Komische Oper Berlin as Queen of the Night with the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and with Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as Gepopo in Le Grand Macabre, conducted by Alan Gilbert.
The 2019-20 season includes Gilda in Rigoletto in her debut with Opera Hong Kong, the reprisal of Hermione Manfred Trojahn’s Orest with the Vienna State Opera, soprano soloist in Die Nachtigall by Ernst Krenek with The Cleveland Orchestra and a return to The Santa Fe Opera as Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte.
Comfortable in both conventional and contemporary opera roles, Ms. Luna’s repertoire includes Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Madame Mao in Nixon in China, Gilda in Rigoletto, Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, the title role in Lakmé, Gepopo in Le Grande Macabre, Norina in Don Pasquale, and Marie in La Fille du Regiment.
Ms. Luna has appeared on the concert stage, with Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and others. Her repertoire for the concert stage includes Brahms’ Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica, Makris’ Symphony for Soprano and Strings, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Ligeti’s Requiem, Le Grande Macabre, George Crumb’s Star Child, Amy Beach’s Grand Mass, and Debussy’s Martyrdom of St. Sebastien.
A new collaboration with composer Peter Eötvös and the Calder Quartet of his new work, The Sirens cycle toured Europe and is now available on BMC Records.
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