Michelle DeYoung

Michelle DeYoung is one of the world's most exciting young mezzo-sopranos. Her prolific concert engagements include the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony orchestras under Sir Colin Davis, the San Francisco Symphony under Tilson Thomas, the Boston Symphony under Ozawa, the Chicago Symphony and Philharmonia under Boulez, the Cleveland Orchestra under Slatkin, the Royal Concertgebouw under Chailly, the Berlin Staatskappelle under Barenboim and Boulez and the Israel Philharmonic under Maazel. She has given recitals in New York, San Francisco, Lisbon, Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Edinburgh Festival. Her operatic engagements have included Jocasta with von Dohnanyi in Paris, Fricka for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden under Haitink and at the Metropolitan Opera under Levine, Brangäne in Chicago and Seattle and with Barenboim at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin and Kundry in Bayreuth under Boulez and Berlin under Barenboim. She has had particular sucess in recent seasons as Didon ('Les Troyens') with the London Symphony Orchestra under Davis and Didon, Venus and Shaman in Tan Dun's 'The First Emperor' with the Metropolitan Opera under Levine. This season, she makes her debut at La Scala, opening the season in a new production of Tristan und Isolde. She also returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Fricka and Brangäne.

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