Anett Fritsch

The soprano Anett Fritsch, who was born in Plauen, Saxony, in 1986, began singing in the choir of her hometown’s municipal theater at the age of 13 and took on her first solo roles there when she was 15. Even before she began her vocal studies with Jürgen Kurth at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Music Academy in Leipzig, she won first prize at the Bach Competition in that city in 2001. In 2006 and 2007, she was a laureate at the International Competition of the Chamber Opera at Schloss Rheinsberg; starting in 2007, she appeared in various roles at Leipzig Opera. From 2009 to 2015, Anett Fritsch was a permanent member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble, where she performed such Mozart roles as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio, as well as Blanche in Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmélites and Marie in Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment. She made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2011 as Almirena in Handel’s Rinaldo, at the Theater an der Wien in 2012 as Merione in Gluck’s Telemaco, and at the Salzburg Festival in 2014 as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni; the Salzburg Festival subsequently engaged her as the Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro as well. Further engagements have taken her to the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Bavarian Staatsoper in Munich, the Opéra national de Paris, and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, where she has appeared as Philidel in Purcell’s King Arthur, among other roles. Anett Fritsch made her debut at Zurich Opera in 2022 as Zdenka in Strauss’s Arabella; in the 2022-23 season, she expanded her repertoire with role debuts including Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, Rosalinde in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, and Frau Fluth in Nicolai’s Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In the fall of 2023, she will return to the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels as Freia in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. She has released an album of Mozart arias.

Lucerne Festival debut on 5 September 2018, singing Berg’s Altenberg Lieder in a performance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.

July 2023