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Founded by Justin Werner in 2018, Stratagem Artists is a boutique artist management company dedicated to representing a select roster of classical singers.

05/19/2026

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05/07/2026

We’re almost ready. New faces and a brand new website dropping next week.

04/20/2026

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04/10/2026

There are many ways to approach this work.

Ours begins with the artist.
And stays there.

In conversation.
In decision-making.
In the long arc of a career.

That is what Stratagem means to us.

03/31/2026

Artist-driven collaboration is not a tagline.
It is the foundation of how we work.

It means listening before building.
It means shaping strategy around the individual, not the industry.
It means creating space for thoughtful, long-term careers.

That same philosophy now extends into a new digital home.

A new way to explore our artists and approach.

🔜 April 2026.

01/07/2026

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“Impressive coloratura soprano” (The New York Times) Elizabeth Sutphen has garnered praise for her sparkling voice and her ability to “soar deftly through stratospheric trills and arpeggios” (Financial Times). Praised as “exquisite” by The Guardian, Ms. Sutphen recently debuted with the Spoleto Festival as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw. This season, she joins Opera San Antonio as Rosina in their production of Il barbiere di Siviglia. Future seasons will see her making her house debut as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos TBA.

Ms. Sutphen made multiple debuts in the 2023-24 season, which included performances at Arizona Opera as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Glimmerglass Festival as Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance and Aveline Mortimer and Elizabeth Cree. She also joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera, covering Hilte in their production of Tannhäuser.

Elizabeth is a graduate of The Juilliard School (B.M. 2012, M.M. 2014) as well as a proud alumna of The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Gerdine Young Artist 2014, 2015/ Richard Gaddess Festival Artist 2016), The Internationale Meistersinger Akadamie (2015) and the Solti Accademia (2016). She has enjoyed successes on many competition stages including receiving a Career Development Grant from the Sullivan Foundation, 2nd Prize in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, an Encouragement Award from the George London Foundation, and 2nd Prize from the FAVA Grand Concours Competition. She was a Finalist in The Dallas Opera Competition, and a semi-finalist at Operalia in Lisbon, Portugal. She represented Oper Frankfurt in the prestigious Stella Maris Competition where she won Second Place, and was awarded the Novick Career Grant from the Juilliard School.

📸- Annamaria Löffelberger, Mike Ledford, Barbara Anmüller, Brent Delanoy, Sophia Negron

12/05/2025

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Described by Opera News as possessing a “seething bass-baritone,” Christian Zaremba brings a distinctive blend of vocal depth, physicality, and dramatic intelligence to the stage. Known for his “gracefully menacing” presence (KDHX) and “oaken bass” voice (KC Independent), he has earned equal praise for shaping each vocal line to illuminate the inner lives of his characters. He appeared last season as Mustafa in L’italiana in Algeri as part of San Silvestro a Lugano’s New Year’s Gala with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. This season, he appears in Meyerbeer’s Le prophète singing the role of Zacharie with both the Théâtre des Champs-Elysée and the Grand Théâtre de Genéve.

In the 2023-2024 season, Zaremba expanded his work across Europe with concert appearances in major venues and festivals. Season highlights include Verdi’s Requiem at KKL Luzern, Amor Fou at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, Dona Nobis Pacem with Chœur Pro Arte, Messiah at the Six-Fours Festival, and a televised appearance at Musiques en Fête, broadcast live from the Roman amphitheater in Orange, France.

A dual French-American citizen and lifelong martial artist, Zaremba is the first performer in Metropolitan Opera history to ascend from stage combat captain and supernumerary to principal soloist. His stage presence—shaped by an early career in stunt work and martial arts—imbues his characters with both visceral credibility and emotional nuance. His long-standing relationship with the Metropolitan Opera bore fruit when he joined their roster as a singer, including various covers, multiple productions of Tosca as Angelotti, and Gianni Schicchi as Guccio.

A graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Mr. Zaremba’s degrees are in Sociology and Theatre. He is also the winner of The Sullivan Foundation’s 2016 Sullivan Award and a winner at the regional level of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Competition (now the Laffont Competition). He is an alumnus of the young artist program at Glimmerglass Festival (2014) and the Wolf Trap Filene program (2015 and 2016).

📸- Eric Woolsey, Austin Opera, Cory Weaver

11/21/2025

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American soprano Maria Valdes has been praised by the New York Times as a “first-rate singing actress and a perfectly charming Gilda.” In the 2024–2025 season, Ms. Valdes made her debut with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra as the soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and returned to the Greensboro Symphony to perform Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate and Requiem. A frequent artist with Hawaii Opera Theatre, she made her STUDIO101 debut in I’ll Be Seeing You, reprised the role of Micaëla in Carmen, and helped create the roles of Hana Hooper Ha’alilio and Himiko Hamilton in workshops of The Sheltering Tree and Tea.

Other highlights included a role and company debut with Opera Wilmington as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, a recital tour in San Francisco and Hawaii with OperAloha, and returns to the Atlanta Master Chorale as the soloist in Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass and Berkshire Lyric in Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten. In the upcoming season, she will perform Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Valdosta Symphony and Bellingham Festival of Music. Valdes returns to Symphony San Jose for Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Spanish River Concerts for “Broadway to Opera.” On the opera stage she returns to The Metropolitan Opera to cover Frida Image #1 in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego.

An accomplished recitalist, Ms. Valdes has performed with Martin Katz, made her New York recital debut with NYFOS performing Compositora, a recital of female Latin American composers with Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, and attended the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, performing in several concerts. An award-winner in the regional Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, Ms. Valdes is also the winner of the top prize at the Corbett Opera Scholarship Competition at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the recipient of a Shoshana Foundation Grant.

📸- Kevin Harry, Andrew Shurtleff, Bob Shomler, Ken Howard, Kristen Loken

11/14/2025

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11/12/2025

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Canadian mezzo-soprano Kady Evanyshyn, praised for her “beautiful, powerful voice and wonderful expressiveness” (Opernglas), is quickly gaining international acclaim. Critics have highlighted her “luminous mezzo-soprano” and “psychologically well-balanced acting” (ORF Kultur), with Opernwelt noting her “fervor and impressive authenticity.” In 2025, she was named to CBC Music’s “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30” list.

In the 2025–2026 season, Kady continues as an ensemble member of Staatsoper Hamburg. She will debut in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with Tobias Kratzer and Omer Meir Wellber, Mahler’s Die Unruhenden in a new production of Christoph Marthaler, and as Dritte Magd in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Elektra. She also reprises roles including Flora/La traviata, Hänsel/Hänsel und Gretel, and 2. Dame/Die Zauberflöte. At the end of the season, she makes her debut at Teatro La Fenice as Amore in Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone.

Her recent debuts include Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Opernhaus Zürich, Charlotte in Werther at Bregenzer Festspiele, and Hänsel at the Verbier Festival.

Having joined the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2019 as a studio member and remaining with the company as an ensemble member from 2022, Kady has performed numerous roles such as Meg Page/Falstaff, Annio/La clemenza di Tito, Ismene/Mitridate, Fjodor/Boris Godunov, Siébel/Faust, Tisbe/La Cenerentola, Amore in the world premiere of Venere e Adone under Kent Nagano, Glascha/Kát’a Kabanová, Zaide/Il Turco in Italia, Laura/Luisa Miller, Kate Pinkerton/Madama Butterfly, and Agnes in Unseres kleines Scheisskaff – Fu***ng Åmål, a role for which she received critical acclaim.

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kady is an alumna of Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, and Classic Lyric Arts, and has received support from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation.

Kady is represented in North America by Stratagem Artists and all other territories by Sorek Artists.

📸- Hans Jeorg Michel, Brinkhoff-Moegenburg, Karl Foster

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