Lauren Snouffer’s concert schedule has yielded collaborations with many of the world’s most distinguished conductors and orchestras including numerous performances with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra, Cristian Macelaru and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Krzysztof Urbanski and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Labadie and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Markus Stenz and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with Patrick Dupré Quigley and the San Francisco Symphony, Harry Christophers of the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, and with Marin Alsop and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo.
Lauren Snouffer held the title role of Debussy’s hallowed Pelléas et Mélisande in a new production at The Dallas Opera directed by Jetske Mijnssen led by Ludovic Morlot, Bess McNeil in Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s adaptation of Lars von Trier’s acclaimed feature film Breaking the Waves at the Houston Grand Opera in a production by Tom Morris with Patrick Summers on the podium, and the title role of Handel’s Semele at The Atlanta Opera in a new production staged by General and Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun under the baton of Christine Brandes. Her 2024-25, which included debuts at the at the Salzburg Mozartwoche in a program of Haydn and Mozart conducted by Roberto González- Monjas and with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and conductor Elena Schwarz in performances of Hans Abrahamsen’s Let me tell you paired with Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Further concert performances included Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet with the Telegraph Quartet under the auspices of DaCamera of Houston, Handel’s Alceste with Peter Whelan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Messiah under Patrick Dupré Quigley leading Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and with Scott Hanoian and the Ann Arbor Symphony.
Past seasons include Houston Grand Opera performances of Le nozze di Figaro conducted by Harry Bicket in a production by Michael Grandage as well as presentations of Carousel, Show Boat, The Rape of Lucretia, and L’italiana in Algeri; Lyric Opera of Chicago performances of Rusalka, La clemenza di Tito, and a new production of Orphée et Eurydice directed and choreographed by John Neumeier under the baton of Harry Bicket; a Seattle Opera debut as La Comtesse Adèle in Rossini’s Le comte Ory conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti; Die Zauberflöte at Seattle Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City; a new Christopher Alden production of Handel’s Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Nicholas McGegan; and Max Emanuel Cencic’s new production of Hasse’s Siroe at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, with additional performances in Budapest and Vienna.
Closely associated with George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, Lauren Snouffer has sung under the composer’s baton at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music and with the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and Opera Philadelphia. She has performed Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, presented the world premiere of Andrew Norman’s A Trip to the Moon with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and joined Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic in the title role of HK Gruber’s Gloria – A Pig Tale in a production staged by Doug Fitch.
An alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Lauren Snouffer also studied at Rice University and The Juilliard School.
