Her career highlights include: Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Charles Dutoit at the Teatro Colon, Turandot with Los Angeles Opera, Sinaloa Festival of the Arts Mexico, Teatro Colon and Köln, Minnie in La Fanciulla del West, with Los Angeles Opera and Essen Opera, Marie in Wozzeck with San Diego Opera, Leonore in Fidelio in Essen, Connecticut Grand, Bonn and Nice, Tosca with Teatro Municipal in Santiago and New York City Opera, Emilia Marty in The Makropolous Case at the Janáček Festival Brno and Köln, Kostelnička in Jenufa in Sao Paolo and Essen, a new production of Jonnie Spielt Auf with Köln Opera, Chrysothemis with Baltimore Opera, Schoenberg's Erwartung with Canadian Opera, Lavinia in Mourning Becomes Elektra with Seattle Opera, Marie/Marietta in Die Tote Stadt in Köln and Spoleto, Senta in Frankfurt and Palm Beach, Salome in such theaters as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden, Ghent, Antwerp, Trieste, Seattle Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Pacific, Baltimore Opera, Utah Opera, Arizona Opera and last season's debut at the Teatro Petruzzelli as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung which was "convincingly tender in the prologue. Lang’s first season solo will be 2016-17.Nina Warren is an internationally acclaimed artist known for her interpretations of the most demanding dramatic soprano repertoire. They will work together on the 2015-16 season Mr. Jenkins, who will remain general director through August 2014. Lang will join the company as director designate next March and work with Mr. He was also artistic director of the Buxton Festival in Britain from 1999 to 2006 and Opera Zuid in the Netherlands from 1990 to 1998. Lang, 57, has held his position in New Zealand since 2006. The company announced that the British stage director Aidan Lang, currently the general director of the New Zealand Opera, would succeed Mr. Jenkins, 76, told the board in 2011 that he would like to step down, and that set in motion a two-year search that ended on Wednesday.
Speight Jenkins has been the general director of the Seattle Opera for 30 of the company’s 50 seasons, and given his accomplishments - which include renovating the Seattle Opera House, staging productions of the complete Wagner canon and making the company’s “Ring” cycle an international attraction - it seemed as if he would lead the company indefinitely.
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