Two-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has been called a “luminous standout” by the New York Times and “equal parts poise, radiance and elegant directness” by Opera News. Ms. Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Seattle Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others, and with over eighty symphony orchestras worldwide, frequently in the works of Mahler. This season, Ms. Cooke debuts at La Monnaie de Munt as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Fanny and Alexander, sings Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust at the Bard Festival, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, and returns to Houston Grand Opera as Venus in Francesca Zambello’s new production of Tannhäuser. On the concert stage, Ms. Cooke reprises much of her most celebrated repertoire joining orchestras such as the Vienna Symphoniker, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Cologne Philharmonic, Tuscon Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonia, the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marin Alsop, Cristian Macelaru, Gustavo Dudamel, Trevor Pinnock, Klaus Mäkelä, Gemma New, Karina Canellakis and Daniel Harding. In recital, Ms. Cooke returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital with pianist Malcolm Martineau, and Carnegie Hall for Shostakovitch’s From Jewish Folk Poetry with[pianist Evgeny Kissin.