Heidi Stober
[1][3][2] While at Lawrence, Stober studied voice with tenor Ken Bozeman and performed the roles of Laetitia in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief and Countess Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
[1] At the New England Conservatory she was the recipient of the John Moriarty Presidential Scholarship and performed the roles of the Dew Fairy in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Laurie in Aaron Copland's The Tender Land.
[2] In 2002 and 2003 she was a member of the Young Artist Program at the Central City Opera where she notably portrayed the roles of the First Wife and the First Gossip in the world premiere of Henry Mollicone's Gabriel’s Daughter.
She made her debut with the company as La China in the world premiere of Daniel Catán's Salsipuedes: a Tale of Love, War and Anchovies in October of that year.
She has continued to perform regularly with the HGO in roles like The Rose in Rachel Portman's The Little Prince (2004), Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro (2005), Xenia in Boris Godunov (2005), Aphrodite/Charito/Tisiphone in the world premiere of Mark Adamo's Lysistrata (2005), Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (2005, 2006, and 2016), Frasquita in Carmen (2006), Drusilla in L'incoronazione di Poppea (2006), Norina in Don Pasquale (2006), Blonde from Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2008), Atalanta in Serse (2010), Musetta in La bohème (2012), Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (2017), and Miss Thompson/Helen Mills/Adelaide Mills in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's The House without a Christmas Tree (2017).
Roles she has performed in Berlin include Adina in a new production of L'elisir d'amore (2014, 2015, 2016), Ascagne in Les Troyens (2010, 2011), Gretel in Hansel and Gretel (2009, 2010, 2016), Hirt in Wagner's Tannhäuser (2008, 2009), Margueritte in Faust (2017), Micaëla in Carmen (2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018), Nannetta in Falstaff (2009), Oscar in Un ballo in maschera (2009, 2012, 2018), Princess Ninette in Robert Carsen's new production of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (2012 and 2015), Roggiero in Tancredi (2012), and several Mozart heroines (Pamina (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017), Susanna (2009, 2012, 2014), Zerlina (2011), and Donna Elvira (2018)).
She has since returned to the SFO numerous times for performances of Sophie in Werther (2010), Atalanta in Serse (2011), Pamina (2012), Nannetta (2013), Magnolia Hawks in Show Boat (2014), Oscar (2014), Johanna in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2015), Norina (2016), and Zdenka in Arabella (2018).
In 2016 she portrayed Alice B. Toklas in Ricky Ian Gordon's 27 at New York City Center and made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Adina in L'elisir d'amore.
In 2006 she sang the soprano solos in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Francis Poulenc's Gloria with the Houston Ballet, and gave a recital at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
In 2007 she made her debut in Asia in Christmas concerts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under conductor John Harding and was the soprano soloist in Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem with the Houston Symphony.
In 2015 she gave a recital at Carnegie Hall with Craig Terry serving as her accompanist, performed in concert with Thomas Hampson and Richard Ollarsabaat at the Harris Theater in Chicago, and made her debut with the New York Philharmonic as the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah.
