Marlis Petersen, Soprano
![]() Sindelfingen, Germany
THIS SEASON Ophélie in Hamlet and the title role of Lulu at the Met, the title role in the world premiere of Aribert Reimann’s Medea at the Vienna State Opera, Aphrodite in Henze’s Phaedra at London’s Barbican Centre, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
MET APPEARANCES Adele in Die Fledermaus (debut, 2005). CAREER HIGHLIGHTS She has sung Lulu with the Vienna State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in Athens and Hamburg, Donna Clara in Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg and the title role of Thaïs in Athens, Zerbinetta in Ariadne in Naxos at Covent Garden, Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Bregenz Festival, Adele at Paris’s Bastille Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, Elisa in Mozart’s Il Re Pastore and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Salzburg Festival, and Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Brussels’s La Monnaie and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She also appeared as Aphrodite in the world premiere of Phaedra in Berlin and as Marta di Spelta in the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s La Grande Magia in Dresden. |
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