Nadine Weissmann

Born in Berlin, Nadine Weissmann studied voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her first opera house contract was in 2002 with Osnabruck Theatre; later on she enjoyed great success as Carmen at the Weimar German National Theatre, where she also covered her first Wagnerian roles. Weissmann garnered international recognition as Erda in the Petrenko/Castorf Ring cycle in Bayreuth from 2013 to 2017.
Weissmann has sung at Glyndebourne and at Edinburgh Festival, as well as in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Monte Carlo, Paris, Marseille, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Hamburg, Helsinki, and Amsterdam.
Her repertoire includes such roles as Laura (La Gioconda), Baba the Turk (The Rake’s Progress), Leokadja Begbick (Mahagonny), Herodias (Salome), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), and Old Lady (Candide).
Weissmann is regularly invited to perform at the Komische Oper Berlin, where she has covered the roles of Third Lady (Magic Flute), Gora (Reimann‘s Medea), and Ježibaba (Rusalka). Further appearances on concert and opera stages have led her to perform in Weimar, Geneva, Paris, Bournemouth, Seoul, Australia, New Zealand, and Salzburg.
Weissmann has collaborated with conductors including Michael Boder, Ivor Bolton, Jesús López-Cobos, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Pablo Heras-Casado, Valery Gergiev, Marek Janowski, Kirill Karabits, Lothar Koenigs, Fabio Luisi, Antonello Manacorda, Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Donald Runnicles, and Christian Thielemann.