Christiane Karg
Christiane Karg studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal upon completing her master’s degree. While still a student, she made her widely acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival.
She appears worldwide in the major roles of her repertoire: at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and at the Opéra national de Paris as Pamina; at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Susanna; at La Scala in Milan as Sophie and Euridice; at the Vienna State Opera as Mélisande; at the Hamburg State Opera as Pamina, Mélisande, Daphne and Contessa; at the Berlin State Opera as Micaëla and Rusalka; and at the Bavarian State Opera as Pamina, Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Fiordiligi. Her role debut as Rusalka at the Berlin State Opera was met with great acclaim.
Karg is also highly sought after internationally for the major concert repertoire of her field. She collaborates with leading orchestras such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orchestre de Paris. Current-season engagements include Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, as well as Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin. On the opera stage, she will make her role debut as the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at the Berlin State Opera.
Her deep passion for art song and chamber music is reflected in her dedicated work in these genres. She appears regularly at the Schubertiade in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, at the Wigmore Hall in London, and has also given recitals at the Musikverein and Konzerthaus, at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and at the Salzburg Festival.
In addition to her numerous engagements, she curates and directs the Festival KunstKlang in Feuchtwangen, developing its own concert series. Through her project “Be part of it! – Musik für Alle”, she is passionately committed to fostering musical education for children and young people. She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 2017.