World renowned American soprano Laura Aikin is a familiar presence in the world’s great opera houses and concert halls performing with many of the greatest conductors of our time including Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Sylvain Cambreling, William Christie, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Daniele Gatti, Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt,  René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta,  Riccardo Muti, Helmut Rilling, Donald Runnicles, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Markus Stenz and Franz Welser-Möst,.

Possessing a range of over three octaves and an arresting stage presence, her repertoire embraces works from the Baroque to the contemporary. In great demand in both Europe and America she began her career as a member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin from 1992-98 where she performed more than 300 times in such major roles as Lulu, Queen of the Night/Die Zauberflöte, Zerbinetta/Ariadne auf Naxos, Amenaida/Tancredi, Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, Adele/Die Fledermaus, and Zaide.

Laura Aikin is now a regular guest in such houses as the Vienna State Opera, La Scala Milan, Bavarian State Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, Netherlands Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Semper Oper Dresden, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona, Opera Frankfurt, Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera and Metropolitan Opera New York.

In addition to her numerous concert appearances at the Salzburg Festival, she appeared in 1999 as the Queen of the Night, in 2003 as Badi’at in the world premiere of Henze's opera L'Upupa, in 2004 as Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and as Konstanze in the same production in the 2006 festival. In 2005 she made her debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the role of the Flight Controller in Jonathan Dove's Flight.

As a concert artist Miss Aikin has appeared throughout the world with orchestras such as the Dallas, London, San Francisco, Chicago, Vienna, BBC and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, the Berlin, Munich, Israel and Vienna Philharmonics, Cleveland Orchestra,  Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Les Arts Florissants, Concerto Köln and Concentus Musicus. The many international festivals in which she has performed include Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Schleswig-Holstein, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Luzern, Wienerfestwochen and Berlinerfestwochen. As a Lied singer she has performed in Berlin, Milan, Dresden and Rome, and made her American recital debut in the San Francisco Chamber Music Series.

Recent operatic successes have included her first Lucia/Lucia di Lammermoor for Opéra de Montpellier, Aithra/Die Aegiptische Helena for Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lulu at the Opéra National de Paris , Lyon Opera, La Scala and the Wiener Festwochen in the new Peter Stein production, Diana/Arbore di Diana for the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare at the Semper Oper, Dresden and Olympia/Tales of Hofmann for the Opéra National de Paris.

Recent concert engagements have included Brahms’ A German Requiem with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Jaap Van Zweden and St Louis Symphony under David Robertson Haydn’s The Creation with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Berg’s Altenberg Lieder with the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris under Pierre Boulez, concerts with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas and concert performances of Donna Anna/Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer.

Her many acclaimed recordings include Beethoven's Christus am Ölberg with Daniel Barenboim on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Centennial Edition Recording, Songs and Cycles by Ned Rorem for Orfeo with pianist Donald Sulzen, Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter with the Sudwestfunk Symphony Orchestra, Respighi's La Campana Sommersa with the Montpellier Opera and a DVD of Lulu live from Opernhaus Zürich. Other DVD releases include Henze's L'Upupa, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail from the Salzburg Festival and Les Dialogues des Carmelites from La Scala with Riccardo Muti.

Future operatic appearances include Konstanze and Marguerite/Les Huguenots for Strasbourg Opera, Marie/Die Soldaten at the 2012 Salzburg Festival and Marilyn Monroe in the première of De Raaff’s opera Waiting for Miss Monroe for Netherlands Opera.