Karen Kamensek has a wide artistic range and conducts both classics and works from the 20th and 21st centuries, in both opera houses and concert halls. In the 2024/2025 season, she debuted at the Houston Grand Opera (with La bohème) and at the Semperoper Dresden (Candide), and also made concert debuts with the Baltimore Symphony, Kraków Philharmonic and Edmonton Symphony. She also conducted The Handmaid’s Tale at the San Francisco Opera and Moby Dick at the Metropolitan in New York, among others. Previous highlights of Kamensek’s career include Tosca at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Philip Glass’s operas Akhnaten and Satyagraha at the English National Opera, Akhnaten and Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Met, Die Zauberflöte at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town at the Norwegian Opera & Ballet, and not least the world premiere of Victoria Borisova-Olla’s Dracula at the Royal Swedish Opera. Her recording of Akhnaten from the Met won a Grammy for best opera recording. In the 2025/2026 season, Karen Kamensek returns to the Royal Swedish Opera to conduct the Swedish premiere of Elena Langer's Figaro Gets a Divorce.
