Michaela Schuster
Dutch National Opera - Die Frau ohne Schatten
No singer has embodied the role of the Nurse as often on opera stages around the world and perfected it as much as Michaela Schuster, who adds her own expression to each phrase and increasingly adds a little more eccentricity to her bloodcurdlingly captivating mezzo-soprano voice.
Bachtrack (05.05.2025)Berlin State Opera - Die Frau ohne Schatten
The crowning glory of the evening clearly went to Michaela Schuster's captivating, vocally powerful Amme. Transformed by the director into a puppet master with dark red hair and black wings, she delivered every word fiercely yet clearly articulated into the audience – her voluminous, omnipresent voice filled every corner of the house.
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Season 25/26 and Highlights
PALAU DE LES ARTS REINA SOFIA
Strauss - Salome - Herodias
Apr 24/28, May 2/7/10
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
Strauss - Elektra - Klytämnestra
June 7/11/14/19/23/27
Biography
Michaela Schuster is one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of our time – celebrated for her great stage presence, vocal expressiveness and dramatic intensity.
In the 2025/26 season, she will perform as Herodias in a new production of Strauss's Salome at Les Arts Valencia – under the musical direction of James Gaffigan and directed by Damiano Michieletto. She will also be a guest at the San Francisco Opera as Klytämnestra in Strauss's Elektra . In addition to her international stage career, she continues to teach as a professor of singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
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In the 2024/25 season, she sang her signature role as the Nurse ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) at the Berlin State Opera and was also engaged in this role for the new production at the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam (directed by Katie Mitchell, musical director: Marc Albrecht). The Zurich Opera also presented the artist again as Herodias ( Salome ) under the direction of Simone Young.
Michaela Schuster's extensive repertoire includes central roles in the dramatic mezzo-soprano repertoire, including Ortrud ( Lohengrin ), Fricka ( Das Rheingold , Die Walküre ), Waltraute ( Götterdämmerung ), the Nurse ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ), Madame de Croissy ( Les Dialogues des Carmélites ), Knusperhexe and Mother ( Hansel and Gretel ), Herodias ( Salome ), Clairon ( Capriccio ), Marie ( Wozzeck ) and Zia Principessa and Zita ( Il trittico ).
She regularly performs at the State Operas in Berlin, Munich and Vienna, in Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , at London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden, at the Zurich Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid and the San Francisco Opera. With their interpretation of Klytämnestra ( Elektra ), Michaela Schuster made her critically acclaimed debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2017/18. Her performances as Amme ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) at the Salzburg Festival and Kundry ( Parsifal ) at the Salzburg Easter Festival—both under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann—are among the outstanding highlights of her career.
Michaela Schuster's wide-ranging concert repertoire encompasses the great works of literature: Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Verdi's Messa da Requiem , Mahler's symphonies and songs, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder , as well as Berg's Seven Early Songs and Altenberg-Lieder . She has given recitals at venues including London's Wigmore Hall and the Schubertiade Hohenems; her CD of lieder, Morgen (Oehms Classics), has won numerous awards.
The artist regularly works with renowned conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Sebastian Weigle, Franz Welser-Möst, Marc Albrecht, Philippe Jordan and Semyon Bychkov, as well as with directors such as David McVicar, Robert Wilson, Richard Jones, Stefan Herheim, Peter Konwitschny, David Alden, Andreas Kriegenburg, Claus Guth and Christof Loy.
Concert engagements have taken Michaela Schuster to the Vienna, Hamburg and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Alte Oper Frankfurt .2025/26
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