Soloist

Dorothea Spilger

The mezzo-soprano Dorothea Spilger was born in Landshut and studied at Munich University of Music and Drama. She was supported during her studies by the Hanns Seidel Foundation and she has been a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now scholarship holder since 2014. She has won many competitions, such as the Competition of the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, the Competizione dell’Opera, the International Johannes Brahms Competition and the International Antonín Dvořák Competition. On the opera stage, she has appeared so far in such roles as Prince Orlofsky (»Die Fledermaus«), Ruggiero (»Alcina«), Ramiro (»La finta giardiniera«) and Dorabella (»Così fan tutte«).

With the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, she sang Tisbe (»La Cenerentola«) in an adaptation for children under Rasmus Baumann. She also sang the role of Tigrana in 2011 in the first staged German performance of Puccini's »Edgar« by the Opera Incognita in Munich. For the 2012/2013 season, she was taken on by the studio of the Opéra National de Lyon, where she also made her début in 2013 as Lapak in Janáček's »Das schlaue Füchslein«. In the 2014/2015 season, she performed at the Erfurt Theatre as Nerone (»Lʼincoronazione di Poppea«) and Siebel (»Faust«).