Soprano

Cio-Cio-San

(11, 16, 21, 25, 30 July)

Kristiane Kaiser studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the University of Music in Vienna with Kammersängerin Margarita Lilova. After winning a number of competitions in Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain, she was awarded the Eberhard-Waechter Medal in 2005.

At an early stage in her career she began making guest appearances, such as in the role of Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt. She sang Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Zurich Opera House and at the Cologne Opera, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Semperoper Dresden and the title role in Richard Strauss’s Arabella in Tallinn. In the summer of 2016, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Rovena in Otto Nicolai’s Il Templario. Most recently she has celebrated acclaimed role debuts as Rezia (Oberon), Elisabeth (Tannhäuser), Marietta (Die tote Stadt) and in the title role of Strauss’s Salome. In 2022 she performed with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.

Since 2004 Kristiane Kaiser has been an ensemble member of the Vienna Volksoper, where she has appeared in a number of roles including Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Micaëla (Carmen), Violetta (La Traviata), Marie (The Bartered Bride), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Rusalka (Rusalka), Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Wally (La Wally), Liù (Turandot), Mimì (La Bohème), Nedda (Pagliacci), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Senta (The Flying Dutchman) and Diemut (Feuersnot).

She was awarded the title of “Kammersängerin” in 2022.

In addition to her opera repertoire, Kristiane Kaiser is very much at home with roles from the classical operetta world, such as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Saffi (Der Zigeunerbaron), Lisa (The Land of Smiles) or the main roles in Friederike, Paganini and The Rose of Stamboul. On the concert stage Kristiane Kaiser has performed in a number of works including Brahms’s A German Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise, Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, together with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, at Le Corum in Montpellier and at the Musikverein in Vienna.