Kate Lindsey
The mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey combines vocal excellence with dramatic intensity, and is regularly invited to perform at the most prestigious opera houses and festivals, among them the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas, the Salzburg Festival, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
In the 2023/24 season she has sung Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) and Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Vienna State Opera, where she has also appeared as Miranda in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest and as Despina in Barrie Kosky’s new production of Così fan tutte under Philippe Jordan. She has also made her role debut as Charlotte (Werther) in Baden-Baden, returned to the English National Opera as Offred in Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale and appeared in Robert Wilson’s staged version of Handel’s Messiah at the Liceu in Barcelona. Her concert engagements have included a recital at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, a performance at the George Enescu Festival with her programme Thousands of Miles, Alma Mahler’s Sieben Lieder at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer under Philippe Jordan in Turin.
Recent career highlights have also included her debut at La Scala, Milan in a Weill double-bill of Mahagonny-Songspiel and Die sieben Todsünden and the title role in the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando at the Vienna State Opera, where she has also sung Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea), La Musica and La Speranza (L’Orfeo) and Penelope (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria). She has performed more than 100 times at the Met, including as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Muse / Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Nerone (Agrippina) and, most recently, Idamante (Idomeneo). She has sung the title role of Miranda (with music by Purcell and others) in Katie Mitchell’s production under Raphaël Pichon at the Opéra Comique in Paris, and performed Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Washington National Opera.
Kate Lindsey appears in concert with leading orchestras. She has worked with conductors including Harry Bicket, James Conlon, Vladimir Jurowski, Pablo Heras-Casado, James Levine, David Robertson, William Christie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Guggeis, Philippe Jordan, Kent Nagano, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Hengelbrock and Franz Welser-Möst.
Her discography includes the albums Thousands of Miles with Baptiste Trotignon and Arianna and Tiranno with the ensemble Arcangelo under Jonathan Cohen.