Houston Grand Opera, along with many others. She made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2001 singing a concert version of Lohengrin and has since sung Elisabetta, The Marschallin and Leonore at this prestigious festival. She made her Bayreuth Festival debut in 2006, singing Sieglinde in Die Walküre and was hailed by Die Zeit as "The Sieglinde of our time" She returned to Bayreuth to sing Senta in The Flying Dutchman in 2012. Pieczonka has worked with the world's finest conductors in concert and opera including Sir Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Semyon Bychkov, Kent Nagano, Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Donald Runnicles, Philippe Jordan, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Richard Bradshaw, among many others. On the concert stage and as a recitalist, Pieczonka has performed at Toronto's Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, the Edinburgh Festival, The Proms, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Vienna's Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, The Orpheum in Vancouver, Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria, Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, New York, among many others. In 2019 she was appointed the first Vocal Chair at the Glenn Gould School, where she gives regular masterclasses, and oversees the vocal department and their opera productions. Awards and honours Pieczonka's 2006 album Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Wagner and Strauss, on the Orfeo label, was nominated for Classical Album of the Year - Vocal or Choral Performance at the Juno Awards of 2007. Her next CD Adrianne Pieczonka sings Puccini won the category in the Juno Awards of 2010. In March 2007, Pieczonka was invested as an Austrian Kammersängerin. She, along with tenor Michael Schade, are the first two Canadian singers to have had this honour. In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2012, she was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2014 she received the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award from the Ontario Arts Foundation. She has received Honorary Doctorates from McMaster University, Hamilton and from her alma mater, University of Western Ontario. She received a Ruby Award from Opera Canada in 2015. She is a Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada as well as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Personal life She resides in Toronto with her wife, mezzo-soprano Laura Tucker, their daughter Grace, and their two cats