Ariadne Greif, praised for her “luminous, expressive voice,” “searing top notes,” and “dusky depths,” (NYTimes), enjoyed a casual child career as a “boy” soprano at the LA Opera, eventually making an adult debut singing Lutoslawski’s Chantefleurs et Chantefables with the American Symphony Orchestra. She starred in operas ranging from Donizetti’s Elixir of Love with The Orlando Philharmonic, to Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Atthis, by G.F. Haas, which the NY Times called “”one of the most searingly painful and revealing operatic performances in recent times.”
Recent projects included performances with William Kentridge in the Oslo Opera House, The Luxembourg Philharmonic, Berkeley Cal Performances, and Performa in New York of the Dada masterpiece Ursonate, two projects of her own called Bird Party and Eleven Wild Geese commissioned by The Ultima Festival in Norway, a film of Table Manners, by Sheree Clement, and a film of We Need To Talk, a new monodrama by Caroline Shaw and Anne Carson for Opera Philadelphia. She sang concerts, recitals, and chamber music across the US, in Canada, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East with collaborators including JACK Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Brooklyn Rider, The Orlando Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Gabe Kahane, Pekka Kuusisto, The Knights, including over three hundred concerts on tour with Ensemble Mélange. She sang at venues including The Ojai Festival, Zurich Tonhalle, Park Avenue Armory, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Chamber Opera, The Sarasota Opera House, Little Island, and The Meidän Festival in Helsinki.
Recent highlights include Alyssa Weinberg’s monodrama Isola with Long Beach Opera, singing and dancing as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with Opera Saratoga, Nick Brooke’s Ten Transcendental Etudes at Mass MoCA, and a series of concerts in North America, Europe, and Australia with Brooklyn Rider, performing Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 and Colin Jacobsen’s Chalk and Soot. In 2025 she appears on a new album with Raven Chacon and Present Music, as well as Kate Soper’s The Romance of the Rose, released in 2024.
Ariadne has premiered upwards of thirty new operas and more than 150 new chamber works.