Heather Buck
Soprano
Heather Buck’s most recent successes include her English National Opera debut singing Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, her return to Arizona Opera in the same role, and her debut with Central City Opera as La Fée in Cendrillon. She also gave her first performances of Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Connecticut Opera), and sang Valencienne in The Merry Widow (Florentine Opera). Other recent highlights include performing Salonen’s Five Images after Sappho (Utah Symphony), and Angel in Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, the Last Night and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas (Spoleto Festival USA). In 2008-09 Heather Buck joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, and sings Ännchen in Der Freischütz (Opera Boston). Ms. Buck made her New York City Opera debut as Haroun in the world premiere of Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories. She has appeared as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann (De Vlaamse Opera), Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Aspen Opera Theater), and as Maid in Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face (Opéra-Théâtre de Metz at Aldeburgh Festival, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and London’s Almeida Theatre). Ms. Buck has sung Laoula in L’Étoile (Opera Boston) and Stella in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire (Washington National Opera).