Ariadne Greif, praised for her “luminous, expressive voice,” “searing top notes,” and “dusky depths,” (NYTimes), enjoyed a casual child career as a “boy” soprano at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in operas ranging from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love with The Orlando Philharmonic, to Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Atthis, by G.F. Haas, which the NY Times called “one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
She performed with William Kentridge in the Oslo Opera House, The Luxembourg Philharmonic, Berkeley Cal Performances, and Performa in his production of the Dada masterpiece Ursonate, created two projects of her own called Bird Party and Eleven Wild Geese commissioned by The Ultima Festival in Norway, and a film of We Need To Talk, a monodrama by Caroline Shaw and Anne Carson for Opera Philadelphia. Collaborations include JACK Quartet, Gabe Kahane, Sofia Jernberg, Pekka Kuusisto, The Knights, over three hundred concerts on tour with Ensemble Mélange, at The Ojai Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Sarasota Opera House, and The Meidan Festival in Helsinki. Recent highlights include Alyssa Weinberg’s monodrama Isola with Long Beach Opera, singing and dancing as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with Opera Saratoga, and The Fall of Rome with AMOC, as well as concerts in the US, Canada, and Europe with Brooklyn Rider, and new albums with Raven Chacon and Kate Soper. Ariadne has premiered upwards of thirty new operas and more than 150 new chamber works.