Dorothea Röschmann

Born in Flensburg, Germany, Dorothea Röschmann made her critically acclaimed debut at the 1995 Salzburg Festival as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The singer performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Wiener Staatsoper and other numerous well known european opera houses .

Dorothea Röschmann’s home is the concertstage as well as the opera houses. The last years she performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra or the Concentus Musicus with Harnoncourt. Recitals leaded her to Antwerpen, New York, London and a lot of other cities, and also to festivals in Edinburgh, Munich and Schwarzenberg.

Her recordings, showing her versatility, include Countess Almaviva with Harnoncourt, Pamina and Nannetta with Abbado, Puccini's Suor Angelica with Pappano, Brahms’s Requiem with Rattle (winner of a Grammy and a Gramophone Award), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Harding, Handel's Neun Deutsche Arien with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Handel’s Messiah with Paul McCreesh, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with David Daniels and Fabio Biondi, and a disc of Schumann songs with Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson.