Michelle DeYoung has already established herself as one of the most exciting artists of her generation. She continues to be in demand throughout the world, appearing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Met Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Vienna Philharmonic, Berliner Staatskapelle, and the Concertgebouworkest. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne.

Equally at home on the opera stage, Ms DeYoung has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatra alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Theater Basel, Opera de Nice and the Tokyo Opera. Her many roles include Fricka, Sieglinde and Waltraute in Wagner's 'Ring' cycle; Kundry in Parsifal, Venus in Tannhäuser, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Eboli in Don Carlos, Amneris in Aida, Marguerite in Le Damnation de Faust, Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, Dido in Les Troyens, the title role in Samson et Dalilah, Gertrude in Hamlet, Jocaste in Oedipus Rex, and the title role in The Rape of Lucretia. She also created the role of the Shaman in Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera.

A multi-Grammy-award-winning recording artist, Ms DeYoung’s impressive discography includes Kindertotenlieder, Mahler’s Symphony No 3, and Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media), Les Troyens with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live), Mahler Symphony No 3 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink (CSO Resound) and with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck (Challenge Records International); and Das Lied von der Erde with the Minnesota Orchestra (Reference Recordings). Her first solo disc was released on the EMI label.