ORCHESTRA PHILHARMONIQUE DE MONTE CARLO
Wagner – Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Dec 5
STATE OPERA UNDER THE LINDEN
Strauss - Salome - Herodias
Jan 10/14/17/23/26/29
OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
Puccini – La fanciulla del West – Minnie
PREMIERE Feb 25
Feb 28, Mar 3/7, Apr 4/7/10/16
ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Berg – Seven Early Songs
March 25/26
MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Wagner – Tristan and Isolde
May 20/23/26/29
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Strauss – Three Hymns by Friedrich Hölderlin, Op. 71, TrV 240
June 23/24

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 Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen (Tcherniakov/Thielemann) at the Berlin State Opera and Vienna State Opera, Kundry at the Vienna State Opera and Opéra National de Paris, Sieglinde at the Bayreuth Festival, Isolde at the Berlin and Munich State Operas, Katerina Ismailova and Minnie (La fanciulla del West ), also in Berlin and Munich, and Marie in Wozzeck at the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, as well as Giorgetta in Puccini's Il tabarro at the Vienna State Opera.

The 2026/27 season takes the artist to Florence as Marie (Wozzeck), where she will also present her acclaimed Isolde (Tristan und Isolde). At the Bavarian State Opera, she will sing the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos, at the Berlin State Opera she will make her role debut as Herodias in Salome , and at the Zurich Opera House she will appear as Minnie in La fanciulla del West. Concert engagements will take Anja Kampe to Lyon with Alban Berg's Seven Early Songs under the baton of Eun Sun Kim, and to Vienna with Richard Strauss's Hölderlin Hymns under Philippe Jordan.
Among her most important engagements of recent seasons are Brünnhilde in performances of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen, as well as Marie in Wozzeck and Ortrud in Lohengrin at the Berlin State Opera, the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos at Hamburg State Opera and Vienna State Opera, Kundry in Parsifal at the Budapest Wagner Days, Isolde at San Francisco Opera under Eun Sun Kim, her role debut as Ariadne at Hamburg State Opera, and 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 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 baton of Philippe Jordan, Giorgetta in a new production ofIltrittico 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 Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera, the new production of Parsifal conducted by Philippe Jordan at the Opéra National de Paris, as well as 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 the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier under Jaap van Zweden with a concert performance of Tristan und Isolde .
Anja Kampe achieved her international breakthrough as Sieglinde opposite Plácido 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 (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, and subsequently repeated her success as Kundry at the Teatro Real Madrid, in Paris and Vienna.
In addition to the roles already mentioned, her repertoire includes parts such as Lisa (The Queen of Spades), Jenůfa, Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten) and Tosca. 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 the role of Tove in Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, including 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 Tcherniakov.
Several of the most important productions have been released on DVD, including Die Walküre from the Salzburg Easter Festival, Der fliegende Holländer from Zurich, and Parsifal from 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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