Blythe Gaissert has established herself as a fresh and exciting artist with “a voice that is pure, powerful, and appealing, with a stage presence to match.” (Denver Post)
New operatic repertoire includes creating the role of Walker Loats in Mikael Karlsson’s one woman opera THE ECHO DRIFT at the Prototype Festival in NYC, reprising the role of Hannah After in Laura Kaminsky’s AS ONE with San Diego Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Colorado, BAM, Opera Idaho and NYCO, Sadie in the NY premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s MORNING STAR with On Site Opera, Robert Paterson’s CAPTCHA with the American Modern Ensemble at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, and covering both the title-role and Martha in the new Peter Sellars staging of John Adams’ dramatic oratorio THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY with The Los Angeles Philharmonic both in the US and on tour to London, Paris and Lucerne.
Other recent credits include Georgia O’Keeffe in Laura Kaminsky’s TODAY IT RAINS with Opera Parallelle, Siegrune DIE WALKÜRE and the Berio Folk Songs, both with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Ravel’s Trois Poemes de Stefan Mallarme, Copland American Songs and Beethoven Symphony No.9 with the Sarasota Orchestra, Prince Orlofsky DIE FLEDERMAUS and Maddalena RIGOLETTO with Sarasota Opera and the title-role RAPE OF LUCRETIA with the Aldeburgh Festival.
