Anja Kampe
Munich Opera Festival - Lohengrin
Anja Kampe delivers a world-class performance as Ortrud. A visionary who deliberately doesn't appear as a dark mezzo, but rather as a dramatic soprano, a sought-after Wagner interpreter… This is all the more true because Kampe pulls out all the stops of her interpretive talents in her performance.
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
BERLIN STATE OPERA
Wagner - Walküre - Brünnhilde
Sep 28, Oct 7
Wagner - Siegfried - Brünnhilde
Oct 1/10
Wagner - Twilight of the Gods - Brünnhilde
Oct 3/12
Berg - Wozzeck - Marie
Dec 14/18/21, Jan 4
Wagner - Lohengrin - Ortrud
Jan 18/25, Feb 1/7
HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos - Ariadne
Nov 16/21/28, Dec 4
VIENNA STATE OPERA
Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos - Ariadne
Feb 19/22/25
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Bavarian State Opera Munich
Wagner - Parsifal - Kundry
April 5, 8, 11 - 2026
ANTWERP SYMPHONY
Wagner - Walküre Act 1 concert version - Sieglinde
Apr 24/25/26
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Wagner - Walküre Act 3 concert version - Brünnhilde
May 15/16/18/20 (Amsterdam)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Wagner - Götterdämmerung Highlights concert version - Brünnhilde
May 24/28
BUDAPEST WAGNER DAYS
Wagner - Parsifal concert version - Kundry
June 5/30
ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE RADIO FRANCE
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde - Isolde
July 11 (Montpellier)
Biography
The German soprano Anja Kampe is one of the most important singers of our time. She has set standards with many of her role portrayals, including Brünnhilde in the Ring of the Nibelung (Tcherniakov/Thielemann) at the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna State Opera, Kundry at the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Paris, Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival, Isolde at the Berlin and Munich State Operas, Katerina Ismailova and Minnie ( La Fanciulla del West ) at the Berlin State Opera and Munich, Marie in Wozzeck at the Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden in London, and Giorgetta in Puccini's Tabarro at the Vienna State Opera.
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The 2026/27 season takes the artist to Florence as Marie ( Wozzeck ), where she will also present her much-acclaimed Isolde ( Tristan und Isolde ). At the Bavarian State Opera, she will take on the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, at the BERLIN STATE OPERA She can be seen in her role debut as Herodias in Salome , and she will be a guest at the Zurich Opera House as Minnie in Fanciulla del West . Concert engagements will take Anja Kampe to Lyon with Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs under the direction of Eun Sun Kim, and to Vienna with the Hölderlin Hymns under Philippe Jordan.
Among her most important engagements of recent seasons are Brünnhilde in performances of Wagner's Ring Cycle , as well as Marie in Wozzeck and Ortrud in Lohengrin at the Berlin State Opera; the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Hamburg State Opera and the Vienna State Opera; Kundry in Parsifal at the Budapest Wagner Days; Isolde at the San Francisco Opera under Eun Sun Kim; her role debut as Ariadne at the Hamburg State Opera; and Ortrud at the Semperoper Dresden and at the Munich Opera Festival, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in Sydney under Simone Young, her Brünnhilde debut in the new Ring cycle at the Berlin State Opera, her first Ortrud at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, her debut as Marie in a new production of Wozzeck at the Vienna State Opera under the direction of Philippe Jordan, Giorgetta in a new production of Le Trittico also in Vienna, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Senta in The Flying Dutchman , the new productions of La Fanciulla del West under Antonio Pappano and Tristan und Isolde under the direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera, the new production of Parsifal conducted by Philippe Jordan at the Opéra National de Paris Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Munich Opera Festival under Kirill Petrenko. Concert engagements have taken her to, among others, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden (Act 1 of Die Walküre ), the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer (Act 3 of Die Walküre ), the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle (excerpts from Götterdämmerung ), and Radio France Montpellier under Jaap van Zweden with a concert performance of Tristan und Isolde .
Anja Kampe achieved her international breakthrough with the role of Sieglinde opposite Placido Domingo at the Washington National Opera. She has since performed this role with great success in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, London, and Bayreuth. In addition to Sieglinde, Senta and Leonore in Fidelio have become central roles in Anja Kampe's repertoire. Under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, she made her role debuts as Tosca and Kundry at the Berlin State Opera, where she achieved success as Kundry. Teatro Real Madrid and was able to repeat the performances in Paris and Vienna.
In addition to the roles already mentioned, her repertoire includes parts such as Lisa ( The Queen of Spades ), Jenůfa, Ariadne auf Naxos, Carlotta (The Marked Ones) and Tosca, among others. Anja Kampe's concert repertoire includes, among others, Richard Strauss's Hölderlin Hymns (Berlin Philharmonic/Christian Thielemann), Berg's Altenberg Lieder (Berlin Philharmonic/Philippe Jordan), Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem , Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder , Beethoven's 9th Symphony , which she last sang in 2017 under Philippe Jordan at the Vienna Musikverein, and Tove in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder , among others at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016.
In addition to the conductors mentioned, Anja Kampe has also worked with Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Mark Elder, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Simone Young, Vladimir Jurowski, Jesús López-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Kazushi Ono, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christian Thielemann, Sebastian Weigle, and Franz Welser-Möst. Among the most important directors she has worked with are Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer, and Dmitri Tchnerniakov.
Several of the most important productions have now been released on DVD, including Die Walküre from the Salzburg Easter Festival, Der fliegende Holländer from Zurich, and Parsifal from the Berlin State Opera. Recordings of Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio from Glyndebourne, as well as Die Gezeichneten from Los Angeles, are also available. Valery Gergiev's recording of Die Walküre won the Echo Klassik award for Best Opera Recording of the Year in 2013.
2026/27
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