Anna-Lena Elbert
soprano
The Munich-based soprano completed her vocal studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with a Master’s degree in Lied. Anna-Lena Elbert maintains a busy concert schedule with a wide-ranging repertoire from Renaissance to modern, covering all the great oratorios by Bach, Handel, Mozart and Mendelssohn, among others. She has performed with orchestras such as the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart, the Berlin Baroque Soloists, Porto Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Already during her studies Anna-Lena Elbert had a special preference for early and new music and received important impulses from Christine Schornsheim, Kristin von der Goltz, Friederike Heumann, Konstantia Gourzi and Jan Müller-Wieland. She was a MozartLabor scholarship holder at the Mozartfest Würzburg and performed at the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Rheingau Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn and musica viva in Munich.
Anna-Lena Elbert is a regular guest at the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim and made her debut at the Bavarian State Opera in 2020 in the leading role of a children’s opera (debut performance). In May 2022 she debuted at the Salzburger Festspiele with and in August 2023 at the BBC Proms under the direction of Ivan Fischer.
Anna-Lena Elbert has a special passion for chamber music and Lied. Individual programming and a lively and intensive musical exchange with her duo partners is her focus. In 2019, together with Kota Sakaguchi, she was a prizewinner of the Richard Strauss Lied Competition, as well as the international Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, and regularly gives recitals, for instance at the Schubertíada in Spain or the Beethovenhaus Bonn. She also made her debut at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in December 2023.
