One of the world’s most exciting mezzo-sopranos, Michelle DeYoung has enjoyed concert engagements with, among many others, the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis (with whom she recorded Didon in Les Troyens to great critical acclaim), San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas, Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra under Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Cleveland Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim and Boulez, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner. She has given recitals throughout North America and Europe. On the operatic stage she has sung Jocasta (Oedipus rex) with Christoph von Dohnányi in Paris, Fricka at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden under Bernard Haitink, Fricka, Brangäne, Venus, and Shaman (Tan Dun’s The First Emperor) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York under James Levine, Brangäne in Chicago under Sir Andrew Davis and at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and Teatro alla Scala, Milan under Barenboim, Amneris (Aida) at English National Opera, and Kundry in Bayreuth under Boulez and in Berlin under Barenboim. Most recently Michelle DeYoung has sung Judit (Bluebeard’s Castle) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Houston Symphony, and Das Lied von der Erde with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.