O23: Curtis Voices

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.

Born in Bratislava, Slovakia and raised in France and Canada, Miloš Repický has developed a diverse musical presence as pianist, conductor, chamber musician, educator, and producer. He is on the music staff at the Metropolitan Opera, where he serves as assistant conductor and prompter, played harpsichord continuo for Le nozze di Figaro, and has led the musical preparation of Jenufa, La fanciulla del West, Anna Bolena, The Death of Klinghoffer, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, among many other operas. He has collaborated regularly with the Cleveland Orchestra for operas including Tristan und Isolde, Cunning Little Vixen, Ariadne auf Naxos, Pelléas et Mélisande, and Daphne; Vienna’s Musikverein; Luxembourg Philharmonie; Lincoln Center Festival; and the Joffrey Ballet. He works regularly with the Santa Fe Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, and has also worked with Houston Grand Opera, Spoleto Festival, San Francisco Opera, the Dallas Symphony, the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, and the Orquestra Sinfónica de Galicia. Mr. Repický is also the artistic director of Music for Montauk, on Long Island, N.Y.

Credits as music director with Toronto-based Against the Grain Theatre include #UncleJohn and the development of a new, immersive work, No One’s Safe, at the Banff Centre. At Kennedy Center’s World Stages Festival, he conducted Tobin Stokes and Heather Raffo’s opera, Fallujah. He has performed chamber music and partnered singers at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Curtis on Tour, Carnegie Hall, Four Seasons Centre, Manchester Music Festival, Medici TV, TED, Jeunesses-Musicales de Montréal, and the Banff Centre. He is featured pianist on the Sundialtech Pictures multimedia DVD of Pierrot Lunaire. In addition to the Met’s HD, radio and SIRIUS satellite broadcasts, his performances have been heard on NPR, Performance Today, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, New York’s WQXR radio, and CUNY TV.

Mr. Repický studied at the University of Victoria with Robin Wood and Winifred Scott Wood, at the Manhattan School of Music with Warren Jones, and is an alumnus of the Music Academy of the West, San Francisco Opera Center, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has served on the faculties of the Juilliard School, Yale Opera, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Castleton Festival.

Mr. Repický joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2016 and was named the Hirsig Family Chair in Vocal Studies in 2022.