Ricarda Merbeth

Ricarda Merbeth makes regular guest appearances at the Dresden Staatsoper, where she sang the soprano solo in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Since 2000 she has been a guest singer at the Bayreuth Festival, with the rôles of Freia and Gutrune and the part of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser from 2002 to 2007. In September 2006 she appeared for the first time as the Empress in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, to much international critical acclaim, and in October 2007 appeared in Tokyo in a new production of Tannhäuser at the New National Theatre.

Ricarda Merbeth’s international career has already led her to many of the most important international opera houses and concert halls. She has sung under very distinguished and well known conductors, including Bychkov, Chung, Fischer, Gergiev, de Billy, Luisi, Mehta, Welser-Möst, Osawa, Runnicles, Sinopoli, Steinberg, Schneider, Thielemann, Viotti, Salonen and Auguin.