Soloist

Alina Wunderlin

Alina Wunderlin was born in Frankfurt am Main and initially sang pop and jazz during her school years. She took piano and percussion lessons and studied singing at the Mannheim University of Music. During her studies, she sang at the Lied.lab of the Heidelberger Frühling festival and at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. She made her opera debut at the Philharmonie Berlin. She was a scholarship holder of Live-Music-Now Yehudi Menuhin, the Richard Wagner Society and the Handel Academy of the International Handel Festival Karlsruhe as well as a special prize winner for opera at the Concours International de Chant Marmande, France.

Her most recent roles include Queen of the Night (»Die Zauberflöte«) in Glyndebourne, Berlin, Vienna and Munich, Blonde (»Die Entführung aus dem Serail«) in Bonn, Adele (»Die Fledermaus«) in Madrid and Paris and Zerbinetta (»Ariadne auf Naxos«) in Salzburg. Concert appearances have taken Alina Wunderlin to venues including the Tonhalle Zurich, the Isarphilharmonie Munich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Kreuzkirche Dresden, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the RheinVokal Festival and the Cologne Funkhaus. She has worked with conductors such as Marc Minkowski, Philippe Herreweghe, Paavo Järvi, Rubén Dubrovsky and Konstantin Trinks as well as directors such as Lydia Steier, Josef E. Köpplinger, Ben Baur, Michael Hampe and Peter Konwitschny.