Henriette Gödde
Henriette Gödde is one of the most sought-after contraltos of our time in concert and oratorio repertory. Alongside cantatas, oratorios and Passions by Bach and his contemporaries, her repertory stretches from the great Romantic oratorios to contemporary music.
As a concert singer she has appeared at major international venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Stuttgart Liederhalle and the Dresden Kreuzkirche. She has been invited to perform with prestigious orchestras and ensembles including the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Camerata Salzburg, Collegium 1704, Ensemble Modern, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Gaechinger Cantorey, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre national de Lyon, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the RIAS Kammerchor, the Athens State Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. She has worked with renowned conductors including Václav Luks, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Christoph Poppen, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Leonard Slatkin and Jaap van Zweden.
Alongside her concert activitiy she also appears in opera. Most recently she sang Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte at the St Margarethen Opera Festival and returned to the Leipzig Opera as Erda in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Siegfried. She has performed at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, Theater Magdeburg, Bühnen Halle and the Erfurt Theatre. She has also appeared at festivals such as the Handel Festival in Halle, the Dresden Music Festival, the IMPULS Festival and the Festival Berlioz. In 2014 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as a participant in the Young Singers Project.
Her artistic activity is documented on numerous CD recordings; these include Adolph Bernhard Marx’s oratorio Mose (cpo) and the world premiere recording of Anton Schweitzer’s Die Auferstehung Christi (Capriccio).
Henriette Gödde studied singing at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden with Christiane Junghanns, and in masterclasses with Olaf Bär. She won first prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition and at the Concorso Internazionale Musica Sacra in Rome.