Kathryn Lewek

Kathryn Lewek has established herself as one of opera’s most thrilling coloratura sopranos of this generation, performing some of the most vocally challenging roles in the repertoire and joining the top-ranking operatic performers of all time. Last season reached the remarkable milestone of Kathryn’s 50th performance of Die Zauberflöte as The Queen of the Night at The Metropolitan Opera, which surpasses The Met's record for the most performances of an opera role by a single artist. The New York Times declared her performance “utterly enthralling, emitting richly glowing bursts of notes like a collapsing star.” She last appeared with Music of the Baroque in January 2017.

Kathryn Lewek 's interpretation of the quintessential Mozart villain has labeled her the reigning Queen of the Night, with productions of Die Zauberflöte with more than 25 companies in over 300 performances to date, including The Royal Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and The Royal Danish Opera, amongst others. Lewek's plush, buoyant dramatic coloratura has received widespread acclaim on the global stage, pinning her as the soprano who "executes this stratospherically difficult role better than anyone alive” (The New Yorker).

Recent and upcoming highlights include highly anticipated role debuts in the title role of Lakmé at Opéra de Nice followed by her portrayal of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with Toledo Opera, alongside her husband, tenor Zach Borichevsky, as Romeo. Additional performances include Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann at Semperoper Dresden; a debut as Madame Herz/Tonina in a pastiche of Der Schauspieldirektor with the Vienna Philharmonic; and Handel’s Messiah with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall. She sings the role of the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte at Semperoper Dresden, The Metropolitan Opera, with the Cleveland Orchestra, and at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. She also appears in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars' Unsilent Spring, presented by DACAMERA in Houston.

Kathryn Lewek also receives critical acclaim for her decisive interpretations of contemporary art song and vast concert repertoire. Recent concert engagements include Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Soli deo Gloria, Carmina Burana with Dallas Symphony, "Celebrating Leonard Bernstein at 100" for Washington National Opera, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and Haydn’s Creation under the baton of the illustrious Maestro John Nelson.

Kathryn Lewek's recordings include Handel: Apollo e Dafne & Armida abbandonata (Pentatone/Naxos); Kathryn Lewek sings Cary Ratcliff (Albany); and the collaborative album Quicksilver (Albany), with the internationally acclaimed guitar and flute duo Nicholas Goluses and Bonita Boyd.