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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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
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, as Kundry at the Vienna State Opera and the Opéra de Paris, as Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival, as Isolde at the Berlin and Munich State Opera, as Katerina Ismailova and Minnie (La Fanciulla del West) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, or as Wozzeck-Marie at the Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden London, as well as Giorgetta in Puccini's Tabarro at the Vienna State Opera.
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In the 2025/26 season, the artist will appear as Brünnhilde for performances of The Ring of the Nibelung at the Berlin State Opera, which has also engaged her for Marie in Wozzeck and Ortrud in Lohengrin. At the Hamburg State Opera, she is expected to reprise the title role in the revival of Ariadne auf Naxos. The Vienna State Opera will present the soprano as Ariadne auf Naxos, and at the Wagner Days in Budapest, she will take on the role of Kundry in Parsifal. Concert engagements will take Anja Kampe to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra with Jaap van Zweden (Walküre Act 1), to the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Ivan Fischer (Walküre Act 3), to the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle (excerpts from Götterdämmerung), and to Radio France Montpellier with Jaap van Zweden (Tristan in concert).
Key engagements in recent seasons include Isolde at San Francisco Opera under Eun Sun Kim, her role debut as Ariadne at the Hamburg State Opera, Ortrud at the Semperoper Dresden and the Munich Opera Festival, the Valkyrie Brünnhilde in Sydney under Simone Young, her Brünnhilde debut in the new Ring at the Berlin State Opera, her first Ortrud at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, her debut as Wozzeck-Marie in a new production at the Vienna State Opera under the direction of Philippe Jordan, Giorgetta in a new production of Trittico also in Vienna, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York as Senta in The Flying Dutchman, the new productions of 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 at the Opéra National de Paris conducted by Philippe Jordan, Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival and at the Munich Opera Festival under Kirill Petrenko.
Anja Kampe achieved her international breakthrough at the Washington National Opera as Sieglinde alongside Placido Domingo. She has performed this role with great success in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, London, and Bayreuth, among other places. In addition to Sieglinde, Senta and Fidelio-Leonore have become central roles in Anja Kampe's repertoire. Under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, she made her role debuts as Tosca and Kundry at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and she was able to repeat her success as Kundry at the Teatro Real Madrid, as well as in Paris and Vienna.
In addition to the roles already mentioned, her repertoire includes parts such as Lisa (Pique Dame), Jenůfa, Ariadne auf Naxos, Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) and Tosca, among others. Anja Kampe's concert repertoire includes 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 Schönberg's Gurrelieder, including at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016.
In addition to the aforementioned conductors, 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, Jesùs 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 others. Her most important collaborations with directors include Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer and Dmitri Tcherniakov.
Some of the most important productions have now been released on DVD, including Die Walküre from the Salzburg Easter Festival, The Flying Dutchman from Zurich, and Parsifal from the Berlin State Opera. In addition, there are recordings of Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio from Glyndebourne, as well as Die Gezeichneten from Los Angeles. The recording of Die Walküre conducted by Valery Gergiev was awarded the Echo Klassik in 2013 for the best opera recording of the year.
2025/26
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