Soloist
Alina Wunderlin
Alina Wunderlin was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied singing at the Musikhochschule Mannheim. She attended master classes with Rudolf Piernay, Robert Holl and Brigitte Fassbaender, among others. In 2018 she was a special prize winner at the Concours International de Chant Marmande in France and also received scholarships from Live-Music-Now Yehudi Menuhin Rhein-Neckar, the Richard-Wagner-Verband Heidelberg and the Handel Academy of the International Handel Festival Karlsruhe. While still a student, she interpreted the title role in the world premiere of »Ritter Parceval« with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie and made her debut as Clara in Haydn’s »Il mondo della luna« at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. In 2018‒2020 she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera, where she appeared on stage as Frasquita (»Carmen«), Blonde (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«), Ernestina (Salieri’s »La scuola de’ gelosi«) and in the title role in Stravinsky’s »Le rossignol«, among others.
As the Queen of the Night (»Die Zauberflöte«), Alina Wunderlin made guest appearances at the Leipzig Opera, the Salzburg State Theatre, the Braunschweig State Theatre, the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, the Dortmund Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, the Karlsruhe State Theatre, the Komische Oper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She has also appeared as Zerbinetta (»Ariadne auf Naxos«) in Salzburg and Bielefeld, Boy (Sidney Corbett’s »Das große Heft«) in Braunschweig, Oberto (»Alcina«) at the Hanover State Opera and in Braunschweig, and as Waldvogel (»Siegfried«) in Dortmund.
Concerts have taken the soprano to the Tonhalle Zurich and Munich with »Carmina Burana« under Paavo Järvi, to the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn with Beethoven’s »The Ruins of Athens«, to the Belgrade Philharmonic with a coloratura concerto by Glière, to the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under Philippe Herreweghe at the Festival de Saintes, to the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin and to the Heidelberger Frühling music festival.
