Liv Redpath

The American soprano Liv Redpath, who hails from Minneapolis, appeared on stage at the age of 13 in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at Minnesota Opera. She later studied at Harvard University and the Juilliard School in New York, completing the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera. In 2019, she was a triple prize winner at the Concurso Tenor Viñas in Barcelona. Engagements at major opera houses soon followed. She made her debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and at New York’s Metropolitan Opera as Oscar in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. She has sung Tytania in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Glyndebourne Festival. She has appeared as Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian Staats­oper and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, as Ophelia in Thomas’s Hamlet at the Komische Oper Berlin, and as Marguerite in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Redpath’s repertoire includes both coloratura parts and roles in the lyric soprano range, spanning from Baroque to contemporary music. She also performs regularly in concert repertoire. She has appeared in Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Har­ding, and Handel’s Messiah with the National Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Biondi. Liv Redpath has worked with such conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Sir George Benjamin, ­Karina Canellakis, William Christie, Gustavo Dudamel, Barbara Hannigan, Vladimir Jurowski, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Christophe Rousset, and Dalia Stasevska. She has also collaborated with directors including David Alden, Pierre Audi, Barrie Kosky, Damiano Michieletto, Katie Mitchell, and Amélie Niermeyer. In the 2025-26 season, she will perform in Debussy’s La Damoiselle élue with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen and in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony under Petrenko at the Salzburg Easter Festival, among other engagements.

August 2025