With “a voice of silver brightness and clarity” (Bachtrack) with “immaculately produced and enticing tone matched by superb musicianship” (Opera News), Israeli soprano Chen Reiss came to prominence as a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Opera and as resident artist at the Vienna State Opera. Her operatic repertoire encompasses the title role in Cavalli’s La Calisto (Teatro alla Scala, Milan), Ginevra (Ariodante) (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Mozart’s Zaide (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma), Donna Anna and Contessa (Le nozze di Figaro), Anne Trulove (The Rakes’s Progress), Liu (Turandot), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea. Highlights of the 2024/25 season include her stage debut as Mozart’s Contessa at Welsh National Opera, the title role of Schumann’s Genoveva in at the Köln Philharmonie, and her debut in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony with Tarmo Peltokoski and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and collaborations with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Ivor Bolton, Alain Altinoglu. Recent highlights include the position of Artist in Residence at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Christmas Day concert under Klaus Mäkelä, and her debuts in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Philharmonie de Paris, Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Mahler Festival, and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. Recent recordings include Mendelssohn’s ‘Lobgesang’ with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and Paavo Jarvi (Alpha Classics), Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov (Pentatone), Schreker’s ‘Vom ewigen leben’ with Christoph Eschenbach and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (Deutsche Grammophon), lieder and scenas of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn with the Jewish Chamber Orchestra of Munich, and Beethoven arias and scenas with the Academy of Ancient Music.