During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Sasha Cooke performs as Hansel in Hansel and Gretel and also directs the Family Day presentation of the opera. Previously for HGO, Cooke performed as Venus in Tannhäuser (2025); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (2024); Thirza in the company’s new production of The Wreckers (2022); in Verdi’s Requiem (2017); and as Magnolia Hawks in Show Boat (2013). Cooke began the 2024-25 season with a return to the Bard Festival as Marguerite in La damnation de Faust; performed as Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde at the Gstaad Festival, conducted by Sir Mark Elder; and debuted at La Monnaie de Munt as Emilie Ekdahl in the world premiere of Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek’s Fanny and Alexander opposite Thomas Hampson and Anne Sofie von Otter in a production by Ivo van Hove. Cooke has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Opéra National de Bordeaux, and Gran Teatre del Liceu, among others. She is a recipient of the 2011 and 2019 Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording for her performances in Doctor Atomic and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, respectively. In 2022, her album with pianist Kirill Kuzmin, How do I find you, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo Album. She is the co-director of the Lehrer Vocal Institute at the Music Academy of the West.