Schubert and Beyond with Amanda Majeski

Internationally renowned American soprano Amanda Majeski is a celebrated interpreter of Mozart, Strauss, Wagner and Handel. She is also highly acclaimed for her portrayal of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová, making her debut with that role at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Best New Opera Production at the 2019 Olivier Awards). She was described as “Katya of the moment,” following the London Symphony Orchestra concert performance conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in 2023.

Ms. Majeski begins the 2025–26 season with a role debut at the BBC Proms, singing the title role in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. She returns to Oper Frankfurt as Marta in The Passenger, sings the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with New Orleans Opera, and joins the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Edward Gardner for Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and Mahler’s 4th Symphony. Future seasons will include her return to London’s Royal Opera House.

The 2024–25 season included an anticipated return to the role of Strauss’ Salome with Semperoper Dresden. She also joined the Madison Symphony for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mozart’s Requiem and celebrated the centennial of her alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music, both in residence as a visiting instructor and for a special gala performance.

During the 2023–24 season, Ms. Majeski returned to the Teatro Real Madrid as Marta in the Spanish premiere of The Passenger and to the Semperoper Dresden as Káťa in a new production directed by Calixto Bieito. She also gave a solo recital at Opera Philadelphia’s O23 Festival and returned to the Tanglewood Music Festival as Gutrune in the final act of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, paced by Andris Nelsons.

Ms. Majeski holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University. She was a member of the Merola Opera Program, the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Steans Institute at Ravinia. Awards include the George London Foundation Award, first prize in the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, and aSara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.