American Heidi Stober is currently a principal artist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she made an enormous impression with her sterling lyric soprano voice, appealing good looks, and incisive stage personality in her house debut in fall of 2008 as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.  She has since appeared there in a variety of leading roles,  including Micaëla in Carmen, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel,  Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Nanetta in Falstaff.
She was recently hailed by the press as having  “… almost stolen the show as a feisty Atalanta, with an ample, agile, gleaming soprano” in Handel’s Xerxes (with Susan Graham in the title role) for the Houston Grand Opera.  Ms. Stober begins the 2011-12 season with a reprisal of this role with the San Francisco Opera, and will make her Metropolitan Opera debut in December as Gretel in Hänsel and Gretel.  A highlight of the season includes a role debut as Zdenka in Arabella conducted by Sir Andrew Davis for the Santa Fe Opera.  For the Deutsche Oper Berlin she appears as Pamina, Susanna, Oscar, Michaela, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Roggiero in a new production of Rossini’s Tancredi.  In concert she performs Mozart’s Requiem with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Carmina Burana with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Stober’s fast moving international career has already taken her to the stages of the world’s most important opera companies.  She made her debut with the San Francisco Opera to great critical acclaim as Sophie in Werther, which was followed by performances of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Music Director Nicola Luisotti. With the Houston Grand Opera, in addition to Xerxes, she has appeared as Susanna, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Norina in Don Pasquale. Her 2007 debut as La Folie in Plateé with the Santa Fe Opera was a particular success: one critic called her “stunning in the dual roles of La Folie and Thalie… (her) diva antics as Folie were buttressed by her gleaming high soprano and wildly wacky comedy.”  Her continuing relationship with that company lead to further engagements as Tigrane in Handel’s Radamisto, and Musetta in La Boheme. She made her role debut as Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles with Opera Colorado, her South American debut with Teatro Municipal in Santiago as Morgana in Alcina, and role and house debuts with Opera Theatre of St. Louis as Aminta in Mozart’s Il re pastore.  The New York Times wrote of her New York City Opera debut that she “contributed some remarkable singing” as Poppea in Handel’s Agrippina.  Ms. Stober made early appearances with Boston Lyric Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Central City Opera, Milwaukee Opera Theater and Utah Opera.
Concert engagements of note include the role of Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, soprano soloist in concert performances of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Oslo Philharmonic, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Baltimore Symphony, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Houston Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Carmina Burana with Houston Ballet.

Heidi Stober’s professional training took place at the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and she holds degrees from Lawrence University and the New England Conservatory.  She is married to baritone Simon Pauly, and currently makes her home in Berlin.