Signe Heiberg

Signe Heiberg studied singing at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in her hometown of Copenhagen. She then completed her master's degree in 2016 at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater under Prof. Carolyn Grace James. Since the 2024/2025 season, Signe Heiberg has been a member of the ensemble at the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, singing roles such as Lady Macbeth and Jenůfa to great acclaim. Her debut as Leonore in Beethoven's “Fidelio” during a guest performance by the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg in Winterthur also attracted considerable national attention. In the 2025/2026 season, she will make her house and role debut as Lady Macbeth at the Frankfurt Opera and as Sieglinde in “Die Walküre” at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. From 2021 to 2024, Signe Heiberg was a member of the ensemble at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. Here she made her role debut as Lady Macbeth in Philipp Westerbarke's production of Verdi's “Macbeth,” which was nominated for the German Theater Prize DER FAUST in 2023.
Her wide-ranging repertoire includes roles such as Desdemona (“Otello”), Countess Almaviva (“Le nozze di Figaro”), Agathe (“Der Freischütz”), Giulietta (“Les Contes d'Hoffmann”), Rosalinde (“Die Fledermaus”), Hanna Glawari (“Die lustige Witwe”), Senta (“Der fliegende Holländer”), Floria Tosca (“Tosca”), Rusalka, and the Marshal in “Der Rosenkavalier”.
Guest engagements have taken her to the Theater Regensburg, the Swiss Schlossoper Haldenstein Festival, the Eutin Festival, where she made her debut in 2019 as Amelia in Verdi's “Un ballo in Maschera”, and the Landestheater Linz and Detmold. She also made her Austrian debut at the 30th anniversary of the Herbsttage Blindenmarkt as Rosalinde in “Die Fledermaus”.
Signe Heiberg has won several prizes at singing competitions, including second place and the audience prize at the Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition in Aalborg (2024). In 2015, Signe Heiberg took part in the Neue Stimmen competition and made it to the semi-finals. In 2014, she won second prize at the Mozart Competition at the Hamburg University of Music and the special prizes of the Palace of Arts in Budapest and the Szeged Open Air Festival at the Éva Marton Singing Competition in Hungary. In 2013, she received the special prize of the Franz Wirth Memorial Foundation in Hamburg and the audience prize at the Maritim Music Prize in Timmendorfer Strand.