Michaela Schuster

Michaela Schuster first studied the oboe and later singing with Helena Lazarska at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and subsequently completed her education with honours at the at the Berlin Academy of the Arts with Jarmila Rudolfowa Kratzer. She participated in master classes with Christa Ludwig, Aribert Reimann and Julia Hamari. Schuster won first prize at the international singing competition “Debut in Meran” and that for Wagnerian vocalists at Bayreuth. At the Francisco Viñas Competition (Barcelona), she was awarded the special Wagner Prize. From 1999 to 2002, she was an ensemble member at the National Theatre in Darmstadt. Her repertoire includes the roles of Sieglinde in Die Walküre (German National Opera in Berlin, Vienna Opera), Marie in Wozzeck (National Opera in Hamburg), Herodias in Salome (Royal Opera House in Covent Garden), Eboli in Don Carlo (Frankfurt), Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde (Barcelona), Fricka in Die Walküre (Vienna Opera), Kundry in Parsifal (German National Opera, in Berlin), Caesonia in Glanert’s Caligula (Frankfurt, Cologne) and Amme in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Salzburg Festival).