Amanda Majeski
Internationally renowned American soprano Amanda Majeski is a celebrated interpreter of Mozart, Strauss, Wagner and Handel. She is also highly acclaimed for her portrayal of Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová, making her debut with that role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Amanda begins the 2025-2026 season with an exciting role debut at the BBC Proms, singing the title role in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. She returns to Oper Frankfurt, as Marta in The Passenger, sings the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier with New Orleans Opera, and joins the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and conductor Edward Gardner for Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater & Mahler’s 4th Symphony. Future seasons include her return to London’s Royal Opera House.
The 2024-2025 season included a return to Strauss’ Salome with Semperoper Dresden; Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mozart’s Requiem with Madison Symphony; as well as a recital for the centennial celebration of her alma mater, the Curtis Institute of Music. In previous seasons, she returned again to Semperoper Dresden, singing Káťa in a Calixto Bieto production conducted by Alejo Pérez, and reprised Marta in the Spanish premiere of The Passenger at Teatro Real Madrid.
Ms. Majeski made her Metropolitan Opera debut on the opening night of the 2014-2015 season as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro conducted by James Levine. Since then, she has returned for revivals of Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte.
An alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, she made her mainstage Lyric debut as Countess Almaviva. She debuted at the Semperoper Dresden in new productions of Alcina, La clemenza di Tito, as well as revivals of Le nozze di Figaro and Capriccio. Additional international debuts include De Nederlandse Opera, as Donna Elvira; Teatro Real Madrid, as Third Norn and Gutrune in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Vitellia; the Glyndebourne Festival, as Countess Almaviva and Eva; Opernhaus Zürich as Marguerite in Faust; Opéra de Paris as Vitellia; and Staatsoper Stuttgart as the title role in Iphigénie en Tauride.
Majeski holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University. She was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, the Gerdine Young Artist Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Steans Institute at Ravinia. Awards include the George London Foundation Award and a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.