About
Internationally celebrated for her interpretations of Wagner, Strauss, Verdi and Puccini, Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka has brought to life such powerful women as Senta, Chrysothemis, Sieglinde, the Marschallin, the Kaiserin, Tosca, Elisabetta, and Amelia on leading opera and concert stages in Europe, North America and Asia.
Adrianne's performances have taken her to New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, ROH Covent Garden, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Munich, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and La Scala, as well as at some of Europe’s finest summer festivals including Salzburg, Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence under the direction of such conductors as James Levine, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Sir Neville Marriner, Claudio Abbado, the late Richard Bradshaw, Lorin Maazel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Anthony Pappano and the late Sir Georg Solti.
In 2016-2017, Adrianne reprised her highly acclaimed role of Chrysothemis in the late Patrice Chereau’s production of Strauss’s Elektra at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Staatsoper in Berlin. She also appeared as Leonora in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Amelia in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera with the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Staatsoper in Munich, and in the title role of Verdi’s Tosca at the Vienna Staatsoper and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. In concert and recital Adrianne was heard in Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and in Schubert’s great song cycle Die Winterreise with pianist Rachel Andrist at Toronto’s Mazzeloni Hall.
Adrianne’s 2015-2016 season featured performances as Mme. Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites with the Nederlandse Oper in Amsterdam, Chrysothemis in Strauss’s Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where she also reprised another of her acclaimed roles, Tosca.
The 2014-2015 season featured performances in the title role of Tosca, as Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Leonora in a new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio in Madrid, a role she reprised in another new production, this one at the Salzburg Festival. She also appeared as Chrysothemis in Strauss’s Elektra in Munich, with the Bavarian State Orchestra in Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphonie and participated as a jury member for the Hildegar Zadek International Voice Competition.
Her portrayals of Senta in Der Fliegende Höllander and Sieglinde in Die Walküre have taken her to some of the world’s most famed houses – the Bayreuth Festspiele, Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Paris. Both characters have become signature roles earning her the title as “the Sieglinde of our time” (Die Zeit) and widespread praise for her “masterful and touchingly expressive” Senta (Opernglas). Strauss has also featured on Adrianne’s recent calendar including performances as Chrysthemis in Elektra at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the ROH Covent Garden, and Milan’s La Scala, as Die Kaiserin in Frau Ohne Schatten at the Bavarian Staatsoper, Florence and Vienna, the title roles of Arabella in Vienna and Ariadne auf Naxos in Vienna, Toronto, Tokyo, Valencia, Bilbao, and Munich, and as the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier in Salzburg, Vienna, and Munich.