The soprano Kirsten Blaise is rapidly earning outstanding critical acclaim for her performances in concert and recital throughout the world. Among other engagements she has sung with the BBC Symphony, London Sinfonietta, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Netherlands Opera, Karlsruhe Händel Festspiele, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Brooklyn Philharmonic. She made her Concertgebouw début with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia Antarctica, in 2003. That year she sang Handel’s Gloria at the Carmel Bach Festival, and John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music with the London Sinfonietta at Lincoln Center. In the same year she made her début at the Karlsruhe Händel Festpiele as Arianna in Handel’s Gi...