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
The German soprano Anja Kampe is among the most important singers of our time. With many of her role portrayals she has set standards, including as Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen (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 Operas, as Katerina Ismailova and Minnie (La fanciulla del West) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich, as Wozzeck’s Marie at the Vienna State Opera and Covent Garden London, as well as Giorgetta in Puccini’s Il tabarro at the Vienna State Opera.
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In the 2025/26 season the artist will appear as Brünnhilde in performances of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Berlin State Opera, which has also engaged her as Marie in Wozzeck and Ortrud in Lohengrin. At the Hamburg State Opera she will be heard in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos in a revival. The Vienna State Opera will present the soprano again as Ariadne auf Naxos, and at the Wagner Days Budapest she will sing Kundry in Parsifal. Concert engagements will take Anja Kampe to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra with Jaap van Zweden (Die Walküre, Act I), to the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer (Die Walküre, Act III), to the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle (excerpts from Götterdämmerung), and to Radio France Montpellier with Jaap van Zweden (Tristan in concert).
Among her most important recent engagements are 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 at the Munich Opera Festival, Brünnhilde in Die Walküre 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, her debut as Wozzeck’s Marie in a new production at the Vienna State Opera under Philippe Jordan, Giorgetta in a new production of Il trittico also in Vienna, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, the new productions of La fanciulla del West under Antonio Pappano and Tristan und Isolde under Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Berlin, Philippe Jordan’s new production of Parsifal at the Opéra National de Paris, and Sieglinde at both the Bayreuth Festival and the Munich Opera Festival under Kirill Petrenko.
With her Sieglinde alongside Plácido Domingo at the Washington National Opera, Anja Kampe achieved her international breakthrough. With this role she has since appeared to great acclaim in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Munich, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, London, and Bayreuth. In addition to Sieglinde, Senta and Fidelio’s Leonore have become central roles in her repertoire. Under Daniel Barenboim she gave her role debuts as Tosca and Kundry at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, later repeating her acclaimed Kundry at Teatro Real Madrid as well as in Paris and Vienna.
Her repertoire includes, in addition to the roles already mentioned, 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), Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, which she last sang in 2017 under Philippe Jordan at the Musikverein in Vienna, and Tove in Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder, including at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival.
In addition to the conductors already mentioned, Anja Kampe has 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. Important directors with whom she has collaborated include Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer, and Dmitri Tcherniakov.
Several of her most significant productions have been released on DVD, including Die Walküre from the Salzburg Easter Festival, Der fliegende Holländer from Zurich, and Parsifal from the Staatsoper Berlin. Recordings also include Tristan und Isolde and Fidelio from Glyndebourne as well as Die Gezeichneten from Los Angeles. The recording of Die Walküreconducted by Valery Gergiev was awarded the Echo Klassik in 2013 for Best Opera Recording of the Year.
2025/26
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