Biography
Mezzo-soprano
Sasha Cooke
Two-time Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others, and with more than 80 symphony orchestras worldwide.
This season, Cooke debuts at La Monnaie as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander, sings Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Bard Music Festival, appears as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, and returns to Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Tannhäuser. On the concert stage, she joins the Vienna Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Cologne Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Oslo Philharmonic, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Cooke first appeared under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas as a Shenson Young Artist in January 2010, following her SF Symphony debut the previous year. She also toured Europe with MTT and the Symphony singing Mahler’s Third Symphony.
Cooke premiered MTT’s Meditations on Rilke, captured on a Grammy-winning SFS Media release, and recorded two of MTT’s songs on Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas.
This season, Cooke debuts at La Monnaie as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander, sings Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Bard Music Festival, appears as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, and returns to Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Tannhäuser. On the concert stage, she joins the Vienna Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Cologne Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, Oslo Philharmonic, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Cooke first appeared under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas as a Shenson Young Artist in January 2010, following her SF Symphony debut the previous year. She also toured Europe with MTT and the Symphony singing Mahler’s Third Symphony.
Cooke premiered MTT’s Meditations on Rilke, captured on a Grammy-winning SFS Media release, and recorded two of MTT’s songs on Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas.
