Vanessa Goikoetxea
Her most recent successes include her debut at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Tosca in Puccini’s Tosca under the baton of Maestro Daniele Gatti, Rusalka at Opéra de Nice and Opera de Tenerife, and her participation in The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas by Marina Abramović at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
She performed Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder at the Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna, replacing Alexandra Kurzak under the musical direction of Maestro Riccardo Frizza.
Her repertoire includes leading roles such as Alcina at Seattle Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) in her debut at the prestigious Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, as well as at Seattle Opera and Semperoper Dresden under Maestro Omer Meir Wellber, Sabina in Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright, Rosario at Opéra de Limoges, Micaëla at Seattle Opera, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in her debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza, Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito), Donna Anna, and Valencienne (The Merry Widow) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Mimì and Fiordiligi at ABAO and Semperoper Dresden, Susana (La verbena de la Paloma) and Nedda (Pagliacci) at the Teatro Colón.
She has also debuted Ascensión in La del Manojo de Rosas by Sorozábal and Tosca at Seattle Opera.
Critically acclaimed for her debut as Sifare in Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Boston Lyric Opera, a role she reprised with great success at the Teatro Real in Madrid under the baton of Ivor Bolton.
She debuted the role of Donna Elvira, stood out as the soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria under Erik Nielsen, and performed Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder conducted by Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero.
She opened the season at Teatro Massimo di Palermo in the title role of Gisela!, sang Marzelline at Teatro Campoamor, where she also performed Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.
Other roles include Alice Ford (Falstaff) in Japan, Armilla (La donna serpente) at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Hanna Glawari and Jenny Hill in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill at Korea National Opera in Seoul.
She premiered Zeru Urdinetik, performed alongside Ein deutsches Requiem under Erik Nielsen with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. She was invited by Maestro Rinaldo Alessandrini to perform Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang at the Auditorio Manuel de Falla, and sang Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Auditorio Miguel Delibes. She also interpreted Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in Munich.
She is a frequent guest at Semperoper Dresden, where she has received critical acclaim in leading roles such as Bystrouška (The Cunning Little Vixen), Alcina, Musetta (La bohème), Rachel (La Juive), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), and Mimì (La bohème), among others.
Her discography includes Verkündigung (Braunfels) conducted by Ulf Schirmer, and La donna serpente (Casella) conducted by Fabio Luisi, recorded at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Italy. She appears in a DVD of Tosca at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Maestro Daniele Gatti. She also participated in the historic first recording of Mirentxu, an opera by Jesús Guridi, with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.
She received critical acclaim for her debut as Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, directed by David McVicar and conducted by Philippe Auguin and Riccardo Frizza.
She will return to the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino to debut the role of Lady Macbeth, and will make her debut at Teatro La Fenice in Venice as Madame Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites.
