Opera highlights of the 2024/25 season include Anne Trulove in Olivier Py’s staging of The Rake’s Progress at Opéra National de Paris and Contessa Almaviva at Bayerische Staatsoper, both conducted by Susanne Mälkki, Agathe (Der Freischütz) at Semperoper Dresden conducted by Georg Fritzsch and Pamina at the Metropolitan Opera under Evan Rogister. Concerts include a return to the BBC Proms for Fauré’s Requiem with BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève, Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with Tonhalle Orchester Zürich conducted by Paavo Järvi, Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Orchestre de Paris under Stanislav Kochanovsky, a tour of Der Freischütz with Kammerakademie Potsdam and Antonello Manacorda and Mahler’s Symphony No.8 with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä.  Recital appearances include at the Fundació Victoria de los Angeles and at Temporada de Musica I Danse d’Andorra la Vella in collaboration with Gary Matthewman as well as at the Gstaad New Year Festival in partnership with Jonathan Ware.

Key opera successes have included Micaëla (Carmen) at Opéra National de Paris and Lyric Opera of Chicago, Contessa and Liù (Turandot) at Wiener Staatsoper, Agathe at Bayerische Staatsoper, Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) at Salzburger Festspiele, Clara in Jake Heggie’s It’s A Wonderful Life at San Francisco Opera and Madame Lidoine in Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed staging of Dialogues des Carmélites at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. As a regular presence on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, appearances include Clara (Porgy and Bess), Nanetta (Falstaff), Sophie, Anne Trulove and Adina (L’elisir d’amore). Last season saw role debuts as Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at Dallas Opera and as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at Opernhaus Zürich and house debuts at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) conducted by Alexander Soddy and, marking her farewell performances as Sophie, at Staatsoper Unter den Linden under the baton of Joana Mallwitz.

Highly in demand for the concert stage, recent appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 with Gewandhausorchester and Andris Nelsons to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of the work, Mahler’s Symphony No.4 with New York Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda, Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten with Tonkünstler Orchester conducted by Ivor Bolton and Luonnotar with Boston Symphony Orchestra under Nelsons.  Schultz sang her first performances of Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel, made her debut with New York Philharmonic Orchestra in his Brentano Lieder under Santtu-Matias Rouvali, sang Mozart’s Requiem with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, appeared at Salzburg Festival in Schubert’s Mass No.6 under Franz Welser-Möst and performed Luonnotar with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the 2024 Lahti Sibelius Festival conducted by Dalia Stasevska.  In 2020, Golda Schultz starred in BBC’s Last Night of the Proms, together with Dalia Stasevska and BBC Symphony Orchestra, with their specially curated programme broadcast live on radio and television to a global audience of millions.

Golda Schultz’s debut solo album, This Be Her Verse, is released on the Alpha Label and explores the worlds and inspirations of female composers from the Romantic era to present day, including a new commission from Kathleen Tagg and Lila Palmer and curated together with long-time collaborative pianist Jonathan Ware. In her second and current release Mozart,You Drive Me Crazy!, Schultz examines the complexities of the female experience in the three da Ponte operas in collaboration with Antonello Manacorda and Kammerakademie Potsdam.

An acclaimed recital partnership, Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware have performed together at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, Wigmore Hall, Kölner Philharmonie, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, St Paul’s “The Schubert Club”, Princeton University as well as at Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Lucerne festivals.

Appearing alongside some of today’s most exciting singers and instrumentalists, last season saw Jonathan Ware with Samuel Mariño at the Sala Sinfonica Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, with Simon Bode at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, with clarinetist Jonathan Leibowitz on a UK tour to Bath, Falkirk and the Isle of Wight, with Timothy Ridout at the Vancouver Recital Society, with Bilal Alnemr at the Raketenstation, Hombroich, a new collaboration with violinist Leia Zhu in Reims. Of special interest is his project - Kinderlieder - a concert series curated for young children with Lydia Mankopf from Lullula Music and Simone Easthope, which debuted at the Pierre Boulez Saal. Previous seasons’ highlights include recitals with Elsa Dreisig at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Kölner Philharmonie and Wigmore Hall, with Bejun Mehta at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Mozartfest Augsburg; with Camilla Tilling at Spivey Hall in a Jenny Lind-inspired selection; and Brenda Rae at Wigmore Hall in a programme of Schubert and Strauss. Following recent appearances at Verbier Festival and Lied Festival Würzburg with Ema Nikolovska, the pair reunited at Wigmore Hall this season, where he also collaborated with tenors Simon Bode and Kieran Carrel.

Highlights in 2024/25 include a new collaboration with Matilda Lloyd at Fundação Gulbenkian, Kölner Philharmonie, MUPA Budapest and Konzerthuset Stockholm and a return to Wigmore Hall with tenor Robin Tritschler and violinist Hana Chang. Jonathan reunites with violinist Leia Zhu for a concert at Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, with soprano Siobhan Stagg for a recital entitled ‘Origins’at Pierre Boulez Saal, with violist Tim Ridout for a recital at Konserthaus Dortmund, and with mezzo-soprano Rowan Hellier at Glasgow Cathedral Festival.  

Soprano Golda Schultz is a key collaborator with the duo’s specially devised programme of female composers ‘This Be Her Verse’ touring to Berlin, Cologne, Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh, Philadelphia and Vancouver among others, and appearing last season at the Elbphilharmonie, Munich Festival, Schubertiade and Staatstheater Darmstadt as well as a North American tour visiting Princeton and the Schubert Club. This season will see the pair at Kirche Saanen in Gstaad. Highly acclaimed for his “especially fine form” (BBC Music Magazine) and “theatrical sensibility” (New York Times) for the related CD release on Alpha Classics, ‘This Be Her Verse’ complements a quickly expanding discography with baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer for Berlin Classics, mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty for Genuin, oboist Olivier Stankiewicz for Delphian, and Elsa Dreisig for Warner Classics.  

Awards include the Pianist’s Prize at both Das Lied and Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song competitions, as well as First Prize with Ludwig Mittelhammer in the International Hugo Wolf Competition.  

Born in Texas, Jonathan now resides in Berlin where he teaches at Hochschule Hanns Eisler and Barenboim-Said Academy. In addition, he frequently attends Samling Institute, Academia Vocalis and Verbier Festival as a mentor.