Australian soprano Miriam Gordon-Stewart, recently highly praised in the German press for her “powerful” and “magnificent” Tosca debut, was a resident soloist with the Hamburg Staatsoper from 2005-2009. There her varied roles included Jenufa in Jenufa, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, Alice Ford in Falstaff, Micaëla in Carmen, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Elettra in Idomeneo, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimi in La Bohème, Liù in Turandot, Arabella in Arabella, Freia in Das Rheingold and Helmwige in Die Walküre in the Premiere of Hamburg’s new Ring Cycle.

 

Guest engagements have taken her to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Alice, Mannheim National Theatre and Staatstheater Kassel as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Graz Opera as Arabella, and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Ms Gordon-Stewart has had further concert engagements in Kassel and with the Orquestra Gulbenkian in Lisbon, performing Britten’s War Requiem.

 

As a member of Opera Australia in Sydney from 2001 to 2005, Ms. Gordon-Stewart debuted the roles of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Eva, Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, Rosalinde and Mimi. She also collaborated with Simone Young and Orchestra Victoria in a live broadcast of Strauss’s Four Last Songs. In August 2007, Miriam returned to Australia to premiere the chamber song cycle “The Beginning and the End of the Snow”, composed for her by David Chisholm, which was recorded and broadcast by ABC Classic FM.

 

In 2009, Gordon-Stewart launched her freelance career with a debut in the Bayreuth Festival as Helmwige under the baton of Christian Thielemann. She also was praised as “dramatically phenomenal” (- Frankfurter Rundschau) in the challenging lead role of Rosine Kampf in the World Premiere of Oscar Strasnoy’s Le Bal in Hamburg, where she also appeared as a guest for performances of Hanna Glawari in Die lustige Witwe. Ms Gordon-Stewart will make her debut at the Chatelet in Paris next season.

 

Most recently, Ms. Gordon-Stewart presented Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes and the title role of Tosca at the Bremerhaven Opera. Other engagements this spring include Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony in Lisbon and Elsa in Lohengrin at the Kassel State Theatre.