Katharina Magiera
Katharina Magiera studied music education, as well as piano and singing with Hedwig Fassbender and Rudolf Piernay. She held scholarships from the Villa Musica Foundation of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Foundation, and was first prizewinner at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Conservatory Competition.
She has worked with conductors such as Paolo Carignani, Helmuth Rilling, Gabriel Garrido, Marko Letonja, Alexander Liebreich, Kristjan Järvi, Constantinos Carydis, Ivor Bolton, Constantin Trinks, Jaap van Zweden, René Jacobs, Henrik Nánási, Sylvain Cambreling and Krzysztof Urbański.
She has appeared in the Mozart Matinee series at the Salzburg Festival under Ádám Fischer and Andrés Orozco-Estrada and took over as alto soloist in Mozart’s Requiem under Teodor Currentzis in 2017. She also sang the role of Schwertleite (Die Walküre) at the Salzburg Easter Festival under Christian Thielemann.
Her concert engagements include the Munich Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio, the Richard Strauss Festival, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. She has appeared as the Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte) at the Paris Opéra, the Theater an der Wien and Glyndebourne, as Hänsel (Hänsel and Gretel) at the Bavarian State Opera and Schwertleite (Die Walküre) at the Semperoper Dresden, the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Beijing Music Festival.
Katharina Magiera has been a member of the ensemble at the Frankfurt Opera since the 2009/10 season, where she has appeared in roles such as Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Lisa (The Passenger), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Erda (Das Rheingold), Flosshilde and Schwertleite (Der Ring des Nibelungen), the Narrator and St Catherine (La Damoiselle élue and Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher), Nancy (Martha), Margret (Wozzeck), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Filosofia (LʼOrontea), Ježibaba (Rusalka), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Dryad (Ariadne auf Naxos), Vanya (A Life for the Tsar), Emilia (Verdi’s Otello) and Eduige (Rodelinda), as well as the alto soloist in Handel’s Messiah.