Angelika Kirchschlager

Born in Salzburg, Angelika Kirchschlager studied at the Mozarteum and at the Vienna Music Academy where her teachers included Professor Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry.

She enjoys an international career as one of the most important artists of today, dividing her time between recitals and opera in Europe, North America and the Far East. She is acclaimed as one of the foremost interpreters of the operas of Richard Strauss and Mozart. For the Vienna State Opera her roles include Dorabella, Octavian and Clairon (Capriccio). For the Royal Opera House her roles include Melisande (Pelleas et Melisande), Sophie (Sophie’s Choice), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel).

She has a wide discography for her label Sony Masterworks, which have won numerous awards including a Grammy. Her latest releases include a disc of Hugo Wolf lieder with Helmut Deutsch, an operetta arias and duets “My heart alone” with Simon Keenlyside and Handel arias with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Laurence Cummings.

Her highlights this season include appearances throughout Europe and North America with Helmut Deutsch, Graham Johnson and Roger Vignoles. She will sing Schumann Concerts in Paris, Vienna, London and Hamburg beside Dorothea Roschmann, Ian Bostridge and Thomas Quasthoff, a solo recital at the Alice Tully Hall in New York, a duet recital with Felicity Lott and a duet recital with Simon Keenlyside both at the Wigmore Hall.

Angelika Kirchschlager appears with the world’s most important orchestras and conductors including Orchester National d'Ile de France and Muti, Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and Jansons and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.

Her operatic appearances this season include the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and the Mahagonny Songspiel), Metropolitan Opera (Hänsel), Bavarian State Opera (Prince Orlofsky) and at the Vienna State Opera (Octavian and Clairon).

In 2007 she was made a Kammersängerin of the Vienna State Opera by the Austrian Government. She is a guest professor at both the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Royal Academy of Music where she is also an Honorary Fellow.