Biography

Ariadne Greif, an opera singer praised for her "luminous, expressive voice," "searing top notes," and "dusky depths," (NY Times), began her opera career as a 'boy' soprano in Los Angeles and at the LA Opera, making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She has starred in roles ranging from Therese/Tirésias in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias, singing a "thoroughly commanding and effortless" run at the Aldeburgh Festival, and a "sassy" and "sparkling" Adina in The Elixir of Love with the Orlando Philharmonic, to Sappho in Atthis by Georg Friedrich Haas, which the New York Times called "a solo high-wire act for Ms. Greif," "a vehicle for Ms. Greif's raw, no-holds-barred performance," and "one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times."

She performed a "soaring...spine-chilling" staged recital in Australia with the Sydney Chamber Opera at the Resonant Bodies Festival (Sydney Arts Guide), and performances with William Kentridge of Ursonate at Den Norske Opera as part of the Ultima Festival in Oslo, where she was invited back for September 2020 with a project of her own called Bird Party. Recent performances included Mahler Symphony No. 4, Carmina Burana, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Mozart Requiem, Mozart Vespers K.321, Babbit's A Solo Requiem, opera gala concerts at the Sarasota Opera House, and role debuts as Musetta in La Bohème with The Greater Bridgeport Symphony and Papagena in The Magic Flute with The Orlando Philharmonic. She performed concerts of chamber music in Weill Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, The Park Avenue Armory, across the US, Canada, France, Finland, and the Middle East, in appearances with Lukas Ligeti, Gabriel Kahane, William Kentridge, The Knights, JACK Quartet, among others. She has premiered over fifty new works and more than a dozen new operas, and created a twenty-composer commissioning project, called Dreams & Nightmares, subject of a forthcoming documentary called Only a Dream. Future projects include the premiere of Kate Soper's opera The Romance of the Rose.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ariadne Greif