Heidi opens her 2023-24 season with performances of Pamina for Semperoper Dresden, which she reprises later in the year. She also appears at the Semperoper as Rahel in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s new opera Die Jüdin von Toledo directed by Robert Carsen. Other operatic highlights include a return to the Metropolitan opera as Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of La bohème conducted by Carlo Rizzi, and Pat Nixon Nixon in China at the Deutsche Oper Berlin directed by Franziska Kronfoth and Julia Lwowski under the baton of Daniel Carter. This season’s concert highlights include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Boston Baroque Orchestra conducted by Martin Pearlman as part of the orchestra’s 50th anniversary celebrations, and performances of Mozart’s Requiem at Davies Symphony Hall with the San Francisco Symphony cond. Jonathan Cohen and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago cond. Enrique Mazzola. Future plans include returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Heidi’s 2022-23 highlights included her role debut as Blanche Les Dialogues des Carmélites at San Francisco Opera, Gretel Hansel and Gretel at Lyric Opera of Chicago, her Japan debut as Donna Elvira at the Hyogo Performing Arts Centre, as well as Despina Così fan tutte at the Hamburgische Staatsoper and Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at the Semperoper Dresden. On the concert platform, Heidi sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Berlin Philharmonie cond. Donald Runnicles and Handel’s Messiah with the Boston Baroque cond. Martin Pearlman.
Heidi made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2011-12 season as Gretel Hansel and Gretel cond. Robin Ticciati, returning to the company in recent years as Despina; Gretel; Pamina; Una voca dal cielo Don Carlos and Oscar Un ballo in maschera. Heidi also holds strong relationships with San Francisco Opera, where she has performed Zdenka Arabella and Angelica Orlando; Gretel; Norina in Laurent Pelly’s production of Don Pasquale; Magnolia Showboat; Oscar; Johanna Sweeney Todd; Nannetta Falstaff; Atalanta Xerxes and Susanna, and with Houston Grand Opera, where she has performed Micaëla; Cleopatra Giulio Cesare; Susanna; Musetta; Atalanta; Miss Thompson/Helen Milla/Adelaide Mills in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House without a Christmas Tree; Drusilla L’incoronazione di Poppea and Norina. For Santa Fe Opera, her roles have included Sandrina La finta giardiniera; La Folie Platée; Tigrane Radamisto; Musetta; Zdenka and Ada in the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s Oscar. Other notable operatic engagements include Dalinda Ariodante and Valencienne The Merry Widow cond. by Sir Andrew Davies for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Ada Oscar for Opera Philadelphia, Despina for Staatsoper Hamburg, title role Semele for Garsington Opera, Fiordiligi; title role Alcina; Micaëla and Adina L’elisir d’amore for Semperoper Dresden, Adina for the Wiener Staatsoper and her house debut as Antigone in Enescu’s Oedipe for Dutch National Opera
Highlights on the concert platform include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in Hannover with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Marc Albrecht; Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Grand Teton Music Festival cond. Donald Runnicles; Stravinsky’s Cantata with the LA Phil cond. Esa-Pekka Salonen; Messiah with the New York Philharmonic; Mozart Requiem and the world premiere of Stephen Hartke’s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Gustavo Dudamel for the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart; Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Oslo Philharmonic and with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Baltimore Symphony and with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Brahms Requiem with the Houston Symphony; Handel Messiah with the Hong Kong Philharmonic; Carmina Burana with the Houston Ballet; Mahler Symphony No. 4 with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Mark Wigglesworth; and a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.
Heidi Stober’s professional training took place at the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and she holds degrees from Lawrence University and the New England Conservatory.
