Draft:Ariadne Greif
American Singer
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Ariadne Greif is an American soprano known best for 20th and 21st century music, but also for traditional repertoire, chamber music, and opera, singing major contemporary works, projects, and roles at Opera Philadelphia, The Oslo Opera House, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Finnish National Theater, Alice Tully Hall, the Ojai Music Festival, Zurich Tonhalle, The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and Long Beach Opera.[1]
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Greif premiered the monodrama We Need to Talk with Opera Philadelphia, written for her by Anne Carson and Caroline Shaw, the stage premiere of the monodrama Atthis, by Georg Friedrich Haas, performed Ursonate with William Kentridge many times, recorded Voiceless Mass, a 2025 album with Raven Chacon, and toured singing Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 and Chalk and Soot with Brooklyn Rider.[2][3][4][5][1][6]
Biography
Greif performed in Los Angeles as a child, singing with the Los Angeles Opera.[7] She was a student of Dawn Upshaw.[8]
Opera
- In 2020 Caroline Shaw wrote a monodrama for Greif called We Need to Talk, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, with a text by Anne Carson. It was made into a film.[2][9][1]
- Greif premiered in Rome is Falling with AMOC* at Lincoln Center at the Running AMOC* Festival at Summer for the City in 2025, as well as in a workshop at The Clark in 2023 and at The Ojai Music Festival in 2021, where she stepped in at the last minute for several concerts.[10][11][12][1]
- Lady Madeline in the 2009 American premiere of Claude Debussy's unfinished operas The Fall of the House of Usher and The Devil in the Belfry at L'Opera Français de New York.[1]
- Thérese/Tirésias in a version of Les Mamelles de Tirésias created by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in a historical performance in Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, for Aldeburgh Music, where the edition had originally been premiered in 1958, for a special presentation in honor of the Britten Centenary in 2012.[13]
- The stage premiere of the monodrama Atthis, by Georg Friedrich Haas in 2014.[3][4]
- Nerone in L'incoronazione di Poppea, 2018.[1]
- Greif performed several times with Eric Jacobsen and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra both as Adina in The Elixir of Love, and as Papagena in The Magic Flute, and performed a recital on the OPO's concert series Women in Song.[14][15][16]
- She premiered Alyssa Weinberg's monodrama Isola with Long Beach Opera in 2024.[1][17]
- She performed as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at Opera Saratoga in 2024.[18][19][1]
Concert Music and Performance Art
Starting at the project's premiere in 2017 at Performa17 in New York, she performed many times with William Kentridge in his interpretation of Ursonate, the 1932 Dada sound poem by Kurt Schwitters, including at the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival at the Oslo Opera House and in Luxembourg at a show presented by the Luxembourg Philharmonie.[5][20][21]
In 2015 she gave a rare remaining premiere of a piece by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji in 2015, KSS52 Vocalise Mouvement, composed in 1927.[22]
Greif wrote a piece, Bird Party, an "ecological dream" in the form of a long-form music video with a live performance score for ensemble at the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival at the Oslo Opera House in 2020. She performed Dreams of Our Future, a piece written by Sofia Jernberg. This was a multi-stage commission with a second set of pieces written and performed by Jernberg and Greif, with an ensemble of instrumentalists and children at the Oslo Opera House in 2022, including Greif's large-form theatrical piece Sixteen Wild Geese, in which Greif played Evil Queen Petrodollar.[23][1]
Greif filled in at the last minute at the Meidän Festival in Helsinki at the Finnish National Theater, singing with Gabriel Kahane and Pekka Kuusisto in Kahane's The Fiction Issue and in Death Speaks by David Lang.[24]
She performed music by Georges Aperghis and other avant-garde music at the 2011 Ojai Music Festival.[8]
She sang recitals of contemporary music at the 2013 Resonant Bodies Festival, the 2014 Resonant Bodies Festival, and the 2015 Ferus Festival.[25][26][27] She performed a staged pastiche recital for Sydney Chamber Opera and Resonant Bodies Australia in 2018 with Alessandro Pittorino, featuring music by Ryan Chase and Kaija Saariaho.[28]
Greif was the featured artist for an episode of the Young Artist Showcase on WQXR in 2024, interviewed by Simone Dinnerstein, and singing a program of contemporary music and and songs of Sergei Rachmaninoff with pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev.[7]
She also was featured on the Young Artist Showcase on WQXR in the Milestone Show/2000th episode in 2016, moderated by Robert Sherman, as the vocalist of the group SHUFFLE Concert, now known as Ensemble Mélange, with whom she performed for more than ten years. Greif made an eponymous album with the group (as SHUFFLE Concert) in 2013.[29][6][30]
She sang frequently with Present Music and recorded an album called Voiceless Mass with Present Music and Raven Chacon, released in 2025.[6][31][32]
Greif performed Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 with the string quartet Brooklyn Rider in 2024 and 2025 in many locations including Washington Performing Arts, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and Tonhalle, Zurich, but also with other groups in previous years, including The International Street Cannibals and JACK Quartet.[33][34][35][36][37][1] Ariadne collaborated frequently with Momenta Quartet as well.[38][39]
She has often referenced Diamanda Galás and Marina Abramović as her idols.[4][15]
Discography
- 2025 Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass (David Bloom / Ariadne Greif / Present Music)
- 2024 Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose (Wet Ink / Wet Ink Large Ensemble / Eric Wubbels)
- 2021 Michael's Songbook, Vol. I, Ariadne Greif, soprano, Michael Shapiro, piano
- 2019 WTF Bach: V!va (Evan Shinners ft. Ariadne Greif)
- 2013 SHUFFLE Concert (SHUFFLE Concert)
- 2014 Merima Ključo: Couperin Visiting the Balkans (Merima Ključo / Danny Holt / Miroslav Tadić / Ariadne Greif)[6]
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