Evelyn Herlitzius

The German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius studied at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Theatre. In 1993, she won first prize at the Meistersinger Competition in Nuremberg. Since 1997, she has been an ensemble member of the Semper Opera in Dresden, singing there the title roles in Jenůfa and Salome, Elisabeth and Venus in Tannhäuser, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Kundry in Parsifal and Katerina Izmailova in Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. In 1999, she won the Christl Goltz Prize and in 2006 the German Theatre Prize “Faust”. At the Bayreuth Festival, she sang the roles of Brünnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Kundry and Ortrud in Lohengrin. Herlitzius has been a guest performer at the Vienna Opera (Leonore in Fidelio, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde), the German National Opera in Berlin (the title role in Salome), the Scala in Milan (Marie in Wozzeck, Katerina Izmailova), Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (Brünnhilde in Die Walküre, Kundry) and at the Salzburg Festival (Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten). Future engagements include Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Vienna Opera) and Leonore Fidelio (Semper Opera in Dresden).