Golda Schultz on Floating High Above While Singing Strauss

(Playbill) —For the soprano Golda Schultz, performing Richard Strauss is a tightrope act. “I don’t pretend to do it right all the time,” she says. “But when you do, you float, without ever thinking you were high in the sky. And when you find yourself on the other side, you want to go again.”

The South African native makes her New York Philharmonic debut performing the full cycle of his Brentano-Lieder, February 17–19, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Schultz, a Juilliard graduate, first learned the songs as a member of the ensemble at The Bavarian Staatsoper. Shortly thereafter, in 2015, she made her international breakthrough as Sophie in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier at the Salzburg Festival. She has since won over audiences at institutions from The Metropolitan Opera to the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Meanwhile, Schultz continues to make her home in the German region of Bavaria and cherishes the proximity to the landscapes that shaped Strauss’s music: “Coming from South Africa, where I don’t think many great [European] composers ever set foot, the only access I had was sitting with their works and trying to imagine myself in the places that they wrote them.”

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