Mezzo-soprano

Michelle DeYoung

Rusalka

Biography

Mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung makes her debut with Irish National Opera in this production. She regularly appears with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, the Concertgebouworkest, and the Sydney Symphony. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. Equally at home on the opera stage, Ms DeYoung has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, and the Paris Opera. A multi-Grammy award winning recording artist, Ms DeYoung’s impressive discography includes Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Götterdämmerung with the Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos), Berlioz’s Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live!), and various Mahler works with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) was released in July 2021 and she is a featured soloist in the Met Opera’s Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11 which was nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance. Ms DeYoung is the founder of Ensemble Charité, an organization which aims to support various charities while also fostering young, emerging musicians through community performances of chamber concerts with seasoned professional musicians, conducted by Ms DeYoung. She was also recently appointed to the vocal faculty of the famed Jacob School of Music at Indiana University.

March 2026