Michelle DeYoung
Instrumental Focus
- mezzo-soprano
Michelle DeYoung has already established herself as an exciting performer and multi-Grammy award-winning recording artist. She continues to be in demand throughout the world, appearing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Met Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Vienna Philharmonic, to name a few. She has also performed at many prestigious festivals, including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Lucerne.
Equally, at home on the opera stage, Ms DeYoung has appeared in the title roles for Samson et Dalilah and The Rape of Lucretia, Fricka, Sieglinde and Waltraute in The Ring Cycle; Venus in Tannhäuser, Marguerite in Le Damnation de Faust, Dido in Les Troyens, Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, and Jocaste in Oedipus Rex. She also created the role of the Shaman in Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera. (2013)