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Katharina Peetz is one of the most sought-after mezzo-sopranos in the German-speaking world, with an impressive career as both an opera and concert singer.

Her career began at the Zurich Opera House, where she was a member of the ensemble for 11 years and continues to appear as a guest. She has been recognised with numerous competition successes, scholarships, and awards from various foundations. She has performed under the direction of conductors such as William Christie, Christoph von Dohnányi, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Adam Fischer, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Daniele Gatti, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst, Michel Plasson, Stefano Ranzani, Ulf Schirmer, Nello Santi, Stefan Soltesz, Marcello Viotti, and Ralf Weikert.

Her roles at Zurich Opera House have included Erda, Medoro, Maddalena, Flora, the Third Lady, Hänsel, as well as various Handel and Wagner roles. Another permanent engagement took her to Dortmund, where she performed roles such as Adalgisa, Cherubino, and Eboli.

Guest performances have taken her to the Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, the Aalto Theatre in Essen, and the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona, as well as to the Bregenz Festival, the Ruhrtriennale, Parma, and London. She also appeared with the Bayreuth cast at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She made her Carmen debut at the Dorset Opera Festival in southern England. Directors such as Willy Decker, Matthias Hartmann, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Martin Kušej, Jürgen Flimm, Giancarlo Del Monaco, and David Pountney have been influential in her artistic development.

She has performed Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder in Valencia, Handel’s Messiah in the Vatican, Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Hamburg, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Mexico City, and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death in Japan. In Baden-Baden, she gave a solo aria evening with selections from Carmen, Die Fledermaus, and The Barber of Seville. Her repertoire, performed worldwide, spans key works of the concert literature from Baroque to modern.

Her work is documented in numerous radio and television recordings, as well as CD and DVD releases (including Schreker's Flammen, Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae and Elektra, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Handel's Orlando).

She studied with Thomas Quasthoff, Carol Richardson, Judith Beckmann, Vera Wenkert, and Heidrun Franz-Vetter, receiving additional instruction from renowned figures such as Christa Ludwig, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Petra Lang.

As of: 04/2026. Changes only with the artist's consent.