Elsa Dreisig
The French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig studied at the Paris Conservatoire. In 2015 she joined the Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera and in 2017 she became a permanent member of the company’s ensemble. She has appeared at the Berlin State Opera in roles including Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Violetta (La traviata), Diane (Hippolyte et Aricie), Gretchen in Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer’s Violetter Schnee, Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni). In January 2017 she made her debut at the Paris Opéra as Pamina, returning to sing Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Elvira (I puritani) and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette). She has also sung Musetta (La bohème) and Massenet’s Manon at the Zurich Opera House, Micaëla (Carmen) and the title role in Salome at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Giulietta in concert performances of I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Salzburg Festival, Manon at the Vienna State Opera, Countess Almaviva at La Scala, Milan, and Donna Elvira at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.
As a concert singer, Elsa Dreisig has toured Europe with the Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle performing Haydn’s The Creation, in which capacity she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2017. She has also toured Europe with the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge and performed with the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonics, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. She has collaborated with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst, Massimo Zanetti and David Zinman.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season have included a European tour of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Countess Almaviva and Lauretta / Lover (Il trittico) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Sifare (Mitridate, re di Ponto) in Berlin and Elisabetta and Anna Bolena in Donizetti’s three Tudor operas at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She made her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) with Trondheim Opera and sang Elettra in concert performances of Idomeneo under Simon Rattle in Munich.
Elsa Dreisig is an exclusive recording artist with Warner Classics / Erato. Her first solo album, Miroir(s) (2018), received numerous awards. In 2020 she released her second solo album with the pianist Jonathan Ware. Her most recent album, Mozart x 3, featuring arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas, Idomeneo, Lucio Silla and La clemenza di Tito, was released in 2022.
Elsa Dreisig is an ambassador for the project Opera for Peace. In 2019 she was awarded the Danish Crown Prince Couple’s Cultural Award.