Athanasia Zöhrer
Biography
The rising lyrical soprano Athanasia Zöhrer “convinces with limitless vocal power, a securely guided soprano voice, enormous musicality and Italianità is finely nuanced and touching in her performance” (Das Opernglas, 2023). Zöhrer has already appeared as a guest artist and soloist at some of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses such as the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Leipzig, Opéra National de Montpellier, Kassel State Theatre, Volksoper Wien, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Salzburg State Theatre, the Nuremberg State Opera and the Kiel Theater and as a perennial ensemble member of Hannover State Opera.
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Full Biography
The rising lyrical soprano Athanasia Zöhrer “convinces with limitless vocal power, a securely guided soprano voice, enormous musicality and Italianità is finely nuanced and touching in her performance” (Das Opernglas, 2023). Zöhrer has already appeared as a guest artist and soloist at some of Europe’s most prestigious opera houses such as the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Leipzig, Opéra National de Montpellier, Kassel State Theatre, Volksoper Wien, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Salzburg State Theatre, the Nuremberg State Opera and the Kiel Theater and as a perennial ensemble member of Hannover State Opera.
In the season 23-24 Athanasia Zöhrer debuts the role of Mathilde in a new production of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell at Theater St. Gallen. She returns to Oper Leipzig as Pamina in a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. At Theater Kiel she sings her first performances of Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohéme and she makes an appearance in the 8th philharmonic concert and performs Mahler’s 2nd Symphony with the Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel. Further on the concert stage Athanasia Zöhrer appears as a soloist at the gala concert at Theater Magdeburg. With Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire in France she presents some of Mozart’s greatest arias for Soprano and orchestra in a concert tour through France.
Highlights of recent seasons include her interpretations of Adina in L’elisir d’amore at Oper Leipzig, Virginia in Das Gespenst von Canterville in Volksoper Wien and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Hamburg State Opera. As former ensemble member of Hannover State Opera she debuted roles such as Gretel in Hänsel and Gretel, Nanetta in Falstaff, Corinna in Il Vaggio a Reims, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte.
The Berlin born Soprano of Greek-Austrian decent achieved a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Classical singing and Opera at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. During her master’s Zöhrer debuted roles such as Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and Micaela from Bizet’s Carmen.
She won the Hübel Foundation scholarship and the Gianna-Szell scholarship and was awarded the prestigious Austrian Federal Ministry Award for Education, Science and Research.
At the 2014 Bundeswettbewerb, the German National Singing Competition, Athanasia won the collective prize from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper and Berlin State Opera. In 2022 Athanasia was a finalist of the Francesco Vinas Competition in Barcelona.
© CSAM, May 2024
