THIS SEASON Chrysothemis in Elektra and Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer at the Met, Tosca with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnie in La Fanciulla del West with the San Francisco Opera, Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with Munich’s Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Isolde in Barcelona, and concert performances of Salome at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival and Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival.

PREVIOUS MET APPEARANCES Title role of La Gioconda, Isolde, Helena in Die Ägyptische Helena, Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera (debut, 1991), Cassandra in Les Troyens, Elsa in Lohengrin, Leonora in Il Trovatore and La Forza del Destino, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Ariadne, Tosca, and Aida.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Salome at Lyric Opera of Chicago, her first Isolde in Vienna followed by a 23-minute standing ovation, President Clinton’s visit to her Met performances as Aida, a breakthrough Ariadne in Boston, and Agnes Gooch in her high school production of Auntie Mame.