Helen Karloski, Mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano Helen Karloski has been praised for her “genuine mezzo timbre” (Opera News) and a voice “beautifully suited for oratorio” (Santa Fe New Mexican). Her 2025-26 season includes performances with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Clarion Society, Artefact Ensemble, and Voices of Ascension.

The New York Times wrote of her performance in Georg Philip Telemann's rarely performed oratorio Der Tag des Gerichts, “Helen Karloski commanded attention as Reason.” She made her Lincoln Center debut in Mozart’s Solemn Vespers with the Mostly Mozart Festival under the baton of Iván Fischer and her Carnegie Hall debut performing Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Bruckner’s Te Deum under the baton of Kent Tritle with the Oratorio Society of New York.

Other recent solo appearances include Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with the Omaha Symphony, Verdi’s Requiem at Carnegie Hall with the Choral Society of Grace Church, Tavener’s Lament of the Mother of God with Musica Sacra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the American Classical Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Copland’s In the Beginning with Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, and the Alto soloist in Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the New York City Ballet.

Favorite performances include The Cunning Little Vixen (Hen), Le Grande Macabre, and My Fair Lady with the New York Philharmonic, Les Huguenots and Oresteia at Bard SummerScape, and the New York City premier of Elliot Goldenthal’s Grendel, directed by Academy Award-nominated Julie Taymor.