Soloist

Katja Reichert

Katja Reichert, a native of Switzerland, received most of her education in New York where she took intensive studies in dance for six months at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School and then completed her degree studies for musical theatre at AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy), graduating cum laude.

Her first productions in New York ranged from Off-Broadway readings to studio recordings, independent film productions and the Shakespeare Festival to the Downtown Arts Festival. During that period of time she also attended courses at the School for Film and Television, took classical singing lessons and completed a summer course at the Shakespeare Conservatory.

Back in Europe, she sang in a number of musical productions, including repeatedly as Maria in »West Side Story« at, among other places, the Bregenz Festival, in the original American version on tour in Europe, at Staatstheater Mainz and Stadttheater Bern, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, at the Graz Opera and most recently at Komische Oper in Berlin. Further musical roles were, among others, as Tuptim in »The King and I«, as Luisa in »The Fantasticks«, as Irene Molloy in »Hello, Dolly!«, as Lois/Bianca in »Kiss me, Kate«  and as Josepha Hofer in the world premiere of »Schikaneder«.

Katja Reichert has also been heard in operas and operettas, including at Volksoper in Vienna, the Graz Opera, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, at the Vienna Festival, at Gärtnerplatztheater, the Sankt Margarethen Opera Festival and Bühne Baden. Her repertoire there included roles like Eurydice (»Orpheus in der Unterwelt«), Adele (»Die Fledermaus«), Valencienne (»Die lustige Witwe«), Gretel (»Hänsel und Gretel«), Christel (»Der Vogelhändler«), the title roles in »Sissy«, »Madame Pompadour«, »Das Schwarzwaldmädel« and »Die Dollarprinzessin«, Papagena (»Die Zauberflöte«), Mi (»Das Land des Lächelns«) as well as Hortense (»Der Opernball«).

In the concert genre she has appeared, among others, as Eileen in Bernstein's »Wonderful Town« at the Bregenz Festival, with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm, at the Dubai Opera Ball, at the Bernstein gala at Vienna's Raimund-Theater as well as with the Tonkünstler-Orchestra of Lower Austria.

At the Gärtnerplatztheater she played Antonia in »Der Mann von La Mancha«, Truly Scrumptious in »Chitty Chitty Bang Bang«, Mrs. Anderssen in »A Little Night Music« and Riquette in »Viktoria und ihr Husar«.