Michaela Schuster, Mezzosoprano

The mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster is one of the most sought-after singers of our time and at home internationally on all major stages.

The 2021/22 season begins for the artist as Herodias in the new production of Salome (Andreas Homoki/Simone Young) at Oper Zürich. Teatro Real Madrid presents the artist as Waltraute in a new production of Götterdämmerung. As Klytämnestra in Elektra she returns to Metropolitan Opera New York. At Berliner Staatsoper she appears again in Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Vienna State Opera has contracted the mezzosoprano as Clairon in Strauss‘ Capriccio.

Michaela Schuster's extensive repertoire includes roles such as Ortrud (Lohengrin), Fricka (Rheingold and Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Knusperhexe and Mutter (Hänsel and Gretel), Herodias (Salome), Clairon (Capriccio), Marie (Wozzeck), Zia Principessa and Zita (Il Trittico) and Amneris (Aida).

She performs regularly at the Berlin State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden London and at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 2017/18 Michaela Schuster made her brilliant debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York as Klytämnestra (Elektra). Her Amme (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at the Salzburg Festival and Kundry (Parsifal) both with Christian Thielemann conducting at the Salzburg Easter Festival are among the many highlights of her career.

Michaela Schuster's extensive concert repertoire includes all important works of her repertoire from Beethoven's 9th Symphony to Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Mahler's Symphonies and Songs to Schönberg's Gurrelieder and Berg's Seven Early Songs and the Altenberg Songs.

Liederabende led Michaela Schuster to London's Wigmore Hall and to the Schubertiade Hohenems a.o. Her CD "Morgen" (Oehms Classics) has won numerous awards.

The artist regularly works with well-known conductors and directors such as Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Sebastian Weigle, Franz Welser-Möst, Marc Albrecht, Philippe Jordan, Semyon Bychkov and directors such as David McVicar, Robert Wilson, Richard Jones, Stefan Herheim, Peter Konwitschny, David Alden, Andreas Kriegenburg, Claus Guth and Christof Loy together.

Concert engagements have brought Michaela Schuster to the Wiener, Hamburger and Bamberger Symphoniker, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and to Alte Oper Frankfurt.

2021/22

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