Karina Gauvin

Recognized for her work in the Baroque repertoire, Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin sings Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Britten, and the music of the late 20th and 21st centuries with equal success. Gauvin has sung with the world’s greatest symphony orchestras, including the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, as well as Baroque orchestras such as Les Talens Lyriques, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Accademia Bizantina, Il Complesso Barocco, the Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy.

She has performed under the direction of maestros Semyon Bychkov, Charles Dutoit, Matthew Halls, Bernard Labadie, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Roger Norrington, Masaaki Suzuki, Helmuth Rilling, Christophe Rousset, and Michael Tilson Thomas, to name a few.

Notable opera successes include Vitellia in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Alcina at the Teatro Real in Madrid, the title role in Armide with the Dutch National Opera, Merab in Handel’s Saul at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and Junon in Cavalli’s La Calisto with the Bavarian State Opera and at the Teatro Real in Madrid.