Christina Landshamer
The soprano Christina Landshamer is in demand worldwide as a concert, opera and recital singer. She has received invitations to perform with leading international orchestras such as the New York, Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with well-known conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Alan Gilbert, Marek Janowski, Christian Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst.
Highlights of 2023/24 included Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Marie Jacquot and with Manfred Honeck and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Beethoven’s Mass in C major with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn.
Opera engagements during her career have taken her to perform at the Stuttgart State Opera, the Opéra national du Rhin, the Komische Oper Berlin, under Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Theater an der Wien and under Simon Rattle at the Salzburg Festival. She has sung Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Bavarian State Opera, the Dutch National Opera and most recently in May 2024 in Nikolaus Habjan’s production with the Cleveland Orchestra. Other appearances include Ännchen (Der Freischütz) at the Semperoper Dresden, Almirena (Rinaldo) at the Glyndebourne Festival, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Woglinde (Das Rheingold) under Kirill Petrenko in Munich. She appeared in the Mostly Mozart Festival in La Fura dels Baus’s staging of Haydn’s The Creation.
As a recitalist she has performed with her duo partner, pianist Gerold Huber, at venues including the Pierre Boulez Saal, the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kioi Hall in Tokyo and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade. Her artistic activity is documented on numerous CD recordings. In 2022 she released the album La Passione with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for Pentatone. Christina Landshamer studied in Munich and Stuttgart. Since 2021 she has been a professor of singing at the University of Music in Trossingen.