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Christiane Karg

Soprano

Biography

Christiane Karg studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the International Opera Studio in Hamburg before joining the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera. Following an auspicious debut at the Salzburg Festival, she has gone on to appear at the Theater an der Wien and the Vienna Staatsoper; the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; the Komische Oper and the Staatsoper in Berlin; the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus; the Semperoper, Dresden; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the Teatro alla Scala, Milan; the Metropolitan Opera, New York; and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

In concert, she has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras, the Orchestre de Paris, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Chicago Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio and the Swedish Radio symphony orchestras... and under the baton of conductors such as Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Mariss Jansons, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Kirill Petrenko, Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, Manfred Honeck, Iván Fischer, Philippe Herreweghe, and Christian Thielemann, among others.

An outstanding recitalist, she has also released a number of much admired recordings (two of them led by Pablo Heras-Casado, for the harmonia mundi label) and garnered several international awards.

Bochumer Symphoniker
Tung-Chieh Chuang

Bochum, DE

Bochumer Symphoniker
Tung-Chieh Chuang

Bochum, DE
London, GB
Graz, AT

Czech Philharmonic
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek

Praga, CZ

Czech Philharmonic
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek

Praga, CZ

Czech Philharmonic
Prague Philharmonic Choir
Lukáš Vasilek

Praga, CZ

Münchner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev

München, DE

Münchner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev

Vienna, AT

Münchner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev

Dresden, DE

Münchner Philharmoniker
Tugan Sokhiev

Leipzig, DE
Schwetzingen, DE
Leverkusen, DE

Musikkollegium Winterthur
Ensemble Corund
Roberto González-Monjas

Winterthur, CH

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Baden Baden, DE
Schwarzenberg, DE

ORF Radio­ Symphonieorchester Wien
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian

Graz, AT

Updated November 2020

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