Biography
The past season included some role debuts for Ms. Hogan as well as some new productions with both new and “old” friends and colleagues. Among these were a return to the Metropolitan Opera to sing in the much-acclaimed production of Janáček’s From the House of the Dead (Z Mrtvého Domu) with staging by Patrice Chereau, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Also last season Ms. Hogan sang her first Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer at the Staatstheater in Schwerin and a new production of Norma for Theater Bremen in Germany. Other recent performances include Nabucco (Abigaille) and Salome in Bremen, Tosca in Weimar and Puerto Rico, and Turandot in Kiel and Bremen. Concert performances this season included Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915″ and the “Liebestod” from Tristan und Isolde with the Syracuse Symphony and the “Verdi Requiem” with the Fairfield (CT) Chorale and Orchestra. This season Ms. Hogan returns to The Metropolitan Opera to sing Gerhilde in the new Robert Lepage production of Die Walküre under the baton of James Levine, sings her first Brünnhilde in Die Walküre for Virginia Opera, returns to Bremen to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, and to Schwerin for additional performances of Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer.
A popular portrayer of Strauss’ Salome, Ms. Hogan has sung the role with The Polish National Opera , Florentine Opera, Opera Company of North Carolina, Lyric Opera of Kansas City among others, as well as performing the role on tour throughout Japan.
In the U.S. Ms. Hogan has also worked with companies such as Washington Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Cleveland Opera, Hawaii Opera, Utah Opera, Nashville Opera, Baltimore Opera, Augusta Opera and Birmingham Opera, in Tosca, Traviata, Trovatore, Norma, Salome, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Susannah, Die Tote Stadt, Sly, Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, and Micaela in Carmen. Conductors she has sung with include Marco Armiliato, Phillipe Auguin, Jiří Bělohlávek, Anton Coppola, Placido Domingo, Mark Flint, Heinz Fricke, Anton Guadagno, Ward Holmquist, Jacek Kaspszyk, Eugene Kohn, Christopher Larkin, Lorin Maazel, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Montane, Markus Poschner, Joseph Rescigno, Julius Rudel, Donal Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Maximiliano Valdès.
Ms. Hogan has performed with U.S. symphony orchestras in works by Beethoven, Dvoràk, Fauré, Mahler, Mozart, Strauss, Vivaldi and Wagner, as well as musical theater ‘pops’ concerts nationwide. Internationally she has sung concerts with the Romanian Philharmonic, Orquesta Nacional de Costa Rica, Nacional Ballet do Brasil, and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice conducted by Jan Latham Koenig.
A native of Iowa, Ms. Hogan was a winner of the American Opera Auditions and a New York winner of the MacAllister Awards. As a winner of the Liederkranz competition she sang a debut concert in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and was also a year-2000 grant recipient from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. She and her husband make their home in Tribeca, NYC.