Biography
Soprano
Heidi Stober
This season, Heidi Stober debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing Gretel in Hansel und Gretel. She also appears at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Zdenka in Arabella and as Pat Nixon in Nixon in China; at Semperoper Dresden as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte; and in the title role of Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots with English National Opera. In concert, she performs Mozart’s Requiem with the Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and gives recitals at the Oxford International Song Festival, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, and with the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago.
Stober’s operatic highlights include a long relationship with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as multiple roles at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, where she most recently appeared as Blanche de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites and was a soloist at the 100th Anniversary Concert. She has also appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Hamburg State Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Dutch National Opera, among other companies. In concert, she has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, and Grand Teton Music Festival. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut on New Year’s Eve 2012 and returns next December for Handel’s Messiah.
Originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Stober attended Lawrence University and New England Conservatory. She continued her professional training as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and now resides in Berlin.
Stober’s operatic highlights include a long relationship with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as multiple roles at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, where she most recently appeared as Blanche de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites and was a soloist at the 100th Anniversary Concert. She has also appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Hamburg State Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Dutch National Opera, among other companies. In concert, she has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, and Grand Teton Music Festival. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut on New Year’s Eve 2012 and returns next December for Handel’s Messiah.
Originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Stober attended Lawrence University and New England Conservatory. She continued her professional training as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio and now resides in Berlin.
