Liv Redpath

Hailed as possessing “such a radiant voice, effortless even in the highest register with breathtaking coloratura, the likes of which have not been heard for a long time” (Berliner Umschau), Liv Redpath is a leading soprano leggero who is quickly establishing herself in diverse operatic and symphonic repertoire around the world.

During the 2025-26 season, Ms. Redpath will make her Teatro Real debut in a new Deborah Warner production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the baton of Ivor Bolton. She will return to the Glyndebourne Festival for her role debut as Konstanze in the David McVicar production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail led by Evan Rogister and to Staatsoper Hamburg as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with conductor Keren Kagarlitsky and director Jette Steckel. Orchestral engagements include return appearances with the Berlin Philharmoniker to sing Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s Symphony  No. 8 at the Salzburg Easter Festival under the baton of Kirill Petrenko; LA Phil for Debussy’s La damoiselle élue with Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium; Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall in Beethoven’s Symphony  No. 9 with Raphaël Pichon at the helm; and Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen for Mahler’s Symphony  No. 8, led by principal conductor Fabio Luisi. Concert debuts include the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI for Hans Abrahamsen’s Let me tell you, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard; Barcelona Symphony Orchestra for performances and a recording as Le feu/La princesse/Le rossignol in Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges with Music Director Ludovic Morlot, a work she also performs earlier with the San Diego Symphony and their Music Director, Rafael Payare; and Phoenix Symphony for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate with conductor Alex Amsel. During the holidays, Ms. Redpath will perform Handel’s Messiah alongside the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Labadie; The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with Dinis Sousa; and American Bach Soloists with Jeffrey Thomas. Her calendar is completed with recitals at Wigmore Hall in London and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City with pianist Harry Rylance. 

Last season, Ms. Redpath made debuts with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as Agnès in Benjamin’s Written on Skin under the baton of Lawrence Renes, and with Opera Omaha as Anne Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. She returned to Santa Fe Opera as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro with Laurent Pelly directing and Harry Bicket on the podium; Bayerische Staatsoper in her signature role of Sophie in the Barrie Kosky production of Der Rosenkavalier, reuniting with conductor Vladimir Jurowski; La Monnaie/de Munt as the Stimme eines Waldvogels in Siegfried directed by Pierre Audi and conducted by Alain Altinoglu, where she also presented a recital and gala concert. Orchestral engagements included the San Francisco Symphony and Seattle Symphony for the Fauré's Requiem led by Kazuki Yamada; Lucerne Festival and Musikfest Berlin performing Boulez's Le soleil des eaux and Pli selon pli with Karina Canellakis leading the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest; Kansas City Symphony for Mozart's Requiem conducted by Bernard Labadie; Danish Symphony Orchestra singing Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor under the baton of Manfred Honeck; Les Violons du Roy as soloist in Handel's Messiah with Maestro Labadie; Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with NDR Vokalensemble in Mozart's Davide penitente conducted by Klaas Stok; Radio Filharmonisch Orkest for Grieg's Peer Gynt, joining conductor Stéphane Denève; and LA Master Chorale for the North American premiere of Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem with Grant Gershon conducting. Additional appearances included the Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Music Series season opening at Weill Hall with music of Strauss, Grieg, and Schubert; Voce dal cielo in Don Carlo with Boston Youth Symphony; a Pacific Palisades concert with pianist David Kaplan with music of Brahms and Copland; and her Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut in their season opening, as well as in recital with pianist George Fu.

Other career highlights include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at Royal Opera House, Los Angeles Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Staaatsoper Hamburg; Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie/de Munt, and Santa Fe Opera; Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndbourne Festival and Atlanta Opera; Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera and Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera; Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Santa Fe Opera; Ophélie in Hamlet at Komische Oper; Woglinde in Das Rheingold at Bregenzer Festspiele; and Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots at Deutsche Oper Berlin. She has also collaborated with The English Concert, London Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and Edinburgh International Festival. 

Ms. Redpath has worked with conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gustavo Dudamel, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Carlo Rizzi, Alain Altinoglu, Alan Gilbert, Karina Canellakis, Fabio Biondi,  Andrés Orozco-Estrada, James Gaffigan, William Christie, Daniel Harding, Emmanuel Villaume, Barbara Hannigan, Lothar Koenigs, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marie Jacquot, Giacomo Sagripanti, Lorenzo Passerini, Erina Yashima, Christophe Rousset, and Dalia Staseveska, among others. She has performed in productions by Katie Mitchell, Sir Peter Hall, Simon Stone, Amélie Niermeyer, Julie Taymor, Damiano Michieletto, Nadja Loschk, Johannes Erath, and Robert Carsen, and has worked with stage directors David Alden, Tim Albery, Mark Lamos, James Robinson, Francesca Zambello, Paul Curran, Ed Berkley, John Neumeier, Omer Ben Seadia, Louisa Muller, Thaddeus Strassberger, and Tomer Zvulun. 

Ms. Redpath’s wide-ranging operatic repertoire includes Hänsel und Gretel, Ariadne auf Naxos, Béatrice et Bénédict, Orphée et Eurydice, Dido and Aeneas, Cendrillon,  Lakmé, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Les mamelles de Tirésias, L'incoronazione di Poppea, The Golden Cockerel, and Candide. Other orchestral and chamber projects have included Saint-Saëns: Oratorio de Noël, Beethoven: Choral Fantasy, Missa Solemnis and Mass in C major, Haydn: Nelson Mass and Die Schöpfung, Kirchner: Songs of Ascent, Mozart: Requiem, Handel: La resurrezione, Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2, Schubert: Mass in G, Babbitt: Philomel, Poulenc: Gloria, Bach: Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Vaughan-Williams: Hodie and Sea Symphony, Nielsen: Hymnus Amoris and Symphony No. 3, and Strauss: Bretano Lieder.

Ms. Redpath was one of twelve finalists worldwide at the 2019 Operalia competition and sang under the baton of Plácido Domingo in Prague for the final round concert. She received second prize, as well as the special French opera prize and audience favorite, at the 56th Tenor Viñas International Contest at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and subsequently sang the winners' concert held at Teatro Real in Madrid. She sang the role of Crobyle in concerts of Thaïs with Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and recorded for release on the Chandos label, subsequently winning a 2021 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year.

A graduate of Harvard University and The Juilliard School, Ms. Redpath is a former Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist with the Los Angeles Opera.

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