Katrin Wundsam

Mezzo-soprano Katrin Wundsam grew up in Neustift, Austria, and studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She began her career in the ensemble of the Stadttheater Passau, where she sang roles such as Bradamante (“Orlando Furioso”), Ms. Jessel (“The Turn of the Screw”) and Anaide (“Der Florentiner Hut”). From 2009 to 2016, she was a member of the ensemble at the Cologne Opera.
Katrin Wundsam is a regular guest at first-class opera houses, concert halls, and international festivals, including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Hamburg State Opera, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Vienna Musikverein, the Bregenz Festival, the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Innsbruck Festival Weeks, and in Grafenegg.
Katrin Wundsam recently expanded her repertoire to include several iconic Wagner roles. In 2023, she sang her first Fricka in “Das Rheingold” at the Dresden Music Festival with Kent Nagano. This was followed by Fricka in “Die Walküre”, as well as the First Norn and Waltraute in “Götterdämmerung” at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and at the Maifestspiele in 2024. The artist also made her role debut as Magdalene in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Tokyo Spring Festival under the baton of Marek Janowski.
Her most recent engagements include her first Ježibaba and the Foreign Princess in “Rusalka” (Hanover, nomination as Singer of the Year). During the opening weeks of the Theater an der Wien, Katrin Wundsam also appeared as Lola in Kreislers “Heute Abend: Lola Blau” and as a cloakroom attendant and high school student in a new production of “Lulu” at the Vienna Festival.
Engagements for the 2024/25 season include the Foreign Princess in “Rusalka” at the Hanover State Opera, Mahler's “Das Lied von der Erde” at the Allegro Vivo Festival in Austria, Bach's “St. Matthew Passion” at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, and Berio's “Volkslieder” with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Musikfest Saar.