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| | Gruber Andrea | | soprano |  
| While still a member of the Metropolitan Opera Studio, Andrea Gruber made her professional debut at the Ravinia Festival in a performance of the Verdi Requiem with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine. Maestro Levine also led her in her early perfonnances of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and in her Metropolitan Opera house debut as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera. Their relationship continued in 2001 when Ms. Gruber performed the role of Abagaille in a new production of Nabucco, as well as the role of Tove in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder during the Met's Spring 2001 tour of Japan. @The soprano gained recognition at an early age for the power of her voice and her keen and deeply felt musicianship. Ms. Gruber quickly developed in the spinto roles of Verdi, with Leonora in La Forza del destino serving as both her operatic and European debuts at the Scottish Opera. She performed her first Amelia in Simon Boccanegra in Santiago, her first Aida for the Seattle Opera and her first Elizabetta in Don Carlo at the Met. Together with Un ballo in maschera these works have taken her repeatedly to the major stages of the world, including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Deutsche Opera Berlin as well as the Staatsoper Berlin, and the Liceo in Barcelona. She broadened into the dramatic Verdi repertoire with her first Nabucco, which marked her San Francisco Opera debut in 1999, and her first Odabella in Attila for her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2000, opposite Samuel Ramey in the title role. She repeated this role for her debut at the Teatro Colon, Bunenos Aires, where she will return in the fall of 2001 for the Verdi Requiem. She repeats Forza for her debut at the Teatro Regio in Turin in February 2002. @The German repertoire is beginning to figure more prominently in Ms. Gruber's career; an early Elsa in Lohengrin in Seattle was an enormous success and was followed by an immediate reengagement in that theater for her first Chrysothemis in Elektra. At the Met she sang the Third Nom in Götterdammerung when the current Ring production was new and she appears on the Deutsche Grammophon audio and video recordings of these performances. In 2001 she sang the dual roles of Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhiiuser for the first time with the Tulsa Opera. She will sing Sieglinde in a concert perfonnance of Act 3 of Die Walküre with the Atlanta Symphony under Donald Runnicles in Apri1 2002. @Andrea Gruber's orchestral repertoire includes most of the major works for the dramatic soprano including the Beethoven Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, Verdi 's Requiem, Britten's War Requiem, and Strauss' Four Last Songs. Her most recent addition is Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, which she first sang with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle in both Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall, and which she will repeat with Rattle for her Berlin Philharmonic debut and an EMI recording. She also sang the role for her Toronto Symphony debut. Orchestral appearances have also taken her to the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the symphonies of Houston, London, and San Francisco under such conductors as Andre Previn, Roberto Abbado, and Donald Runnicles. @A native New Yorker, Andrea Gruber is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. @ |
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