Measha Brueggergosman

Measha Brueggergosman, Soprano

Noted by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a singer of rare gifts and artistic intensity” and by the Miami Herald for possessing “a superb voice capable of just about everything,” Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman has emerged as one of the most magnificent performers and vibrant personalities of the day. She is critically acclaimed by the international press as much for her innate musicianship and voluptuous voice as for a sovereign stage presence far beyond her years.

3.2 billion television viewers from across the globe came together to witness the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and all heard the lauded soprano’s epic performance of the Olympic Hymn. The presentation of the Olympic Flag was accompanied with flair and artistry, brought by the native Canadian's one-of-a-kind masterful instrument, personality, and passion to share classical music with a mainstream audience. The honor of being selected by Canada for this performance cements Measha’s international standing as a fresh and youthful ambassador for classical music that breaks the stereotype of an opera diva in every way imaginable.

A dynamic scope of repertoire coupled with a profound depth of artistic commitment bring Measha Brueggergosman together with many of the finest ensembles and most esteemed conductors of our day. During the 2010-11 season appearances include her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut in a program of songs from Mahler’s Des knaben Wunderhorn conducted by Jaap van Zweden, a collaboration with Leif Ove Andsnes and the Risør Chamber Music Festival with performances in New York, London, Brussels, and Oslo, an international tour with Ensemble Intercontemporain and conductor Peter Eötvös offering Berio’s Recital I for Cathy and Eötvös’ Snatches of a Conversation, and a solo recital tour with appearances in Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vienna. Her expanding international operatic profile includes a return to Opera Atelier as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito and debuts at Houston Grand Opera as Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking directed by Leonard Foglia and conducted by Patrick Summers, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as Elettra in a new production of Idomeneo directed by Stéphane Braunschweig and conducted by Jérémie Rhorer, and a début at the Teatro Real as Jenny Smith in Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in a new production by the Catalan theatre company, La Fura dels Baus, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.

Performances of the past season include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Gustavo Dudamel for his inaugural concert as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw, and with Ludovic Morlot and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Berg’s Sieben Fruhe Lieder with Mark Wigglesworth and the New World Symphony Orchestra, Tippett’s A Child of our Time with David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony, and Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été with Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony. The artist also made her debut with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in concert performances of Carmen, singing Micaëla, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and she joined Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Eighth Symphony.

Notable performances of the recent past have included Cage’s Aria with Renga under Michael Tilson Thomas at the debut concert of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra and with David Robertson and the Concertgebouworkest, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with L’Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Berio’s Recital I for Cathy at Paris’ Cité de la musique with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Robertson, a program of opera arias with Sir Andrew Davis and the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra and with Daniel Barenboim and the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra as well as with Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Berg’s Three Fragments from Wozzeck with Manfred Höneck and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony both with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as well as with Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra. Additional concert performances include Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Gustavo Dudamel and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Schoenberg’s Brettl-Lieder and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dvorák’s Te Deum with Jirí Belohlávek and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and William Bolcom’s Songs