Mezzo-soprano Laila Salome Fischer débuted at the Beethovenfest in Bonn and the Berlioz Festival in France in 2021 with performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Jordi Savall. Further performances brought her to the Philharmonie de Paris and the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona. The following December, she performed in concerts of Mozart’s Requiem, also conducted by Jordi Savall, in Lyon, Paris, Barcelona and at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, among others. Fischer began her career in the children’s studio of the Komische Oper Berlin and began professional studies at the Julius-Stern-Institut der UdK Berlin at the age of eleven. She sang the role of Clothilde in the Echo Klassik-winning CD production of Hans Werner Henze’s opera Pollicino at age twelve. After completing her schooling, she studied singing at the UdK Berlin. She has won fellowships from the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb and the episcopal scholarship foundation Cusanuswerk.
Fischer sang her first opera roles at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam and other stages while still at university. She has appeared at the Bregenzer Festspiele and in concerts at the Staatsoper and Komische Oper Berlin, with the Dresdner Philharmoniker, at the Bachfest in Leipzig and the Händelfestspiele in Halle and Göttingen, and has worked with conductors Jacques Lacombe, Thomas Guggeis, Sergio Azzolini and Jordi Savall, among others. From 2019 to 2022 she was a soloist at the Staatsoperette Dresden, where she sang the roles of Hänsel, Fragoletto (Les Brigands) and Josepha Vogelhuber, among others. As of 2022/2023, she is engaged as a soloist at the Theater Lübeck, where she has sung roles such as Cherubino, Suzuki, Orlofsky and Nancy (Albert Herring). Upcoming appearances include concerts at the Herrenchiemsee Festival, with the Wiener Musikverein, Concerto Köln, ensemble reflektor and Il Giratempo.

Il Giratempo, “The Time Turner”, do not plan to carry you back through the centuries. Theyoung ensemble have set themselves a different task: Using the treasure discovered on their musical expeditions into the past, they fully intend to stir up the here and now.The lutenist Vanessa Heinisch founded Il Giratempo in 2017 in order to be able to realizeher dreams with her favorite players. The ensemble combines historical performance prac-tice with innovative programme ideas and concepts:In “17th Century Jazz” projects, mezzo-soprano Laila Salome Fischer and jazz saxo-phonist Magnus Mehl merge their musical worlds into a time-travelling sound spectacle,accompanied and inspired by a baroque basso continuo group.“Il Giratempo Strings”, on the other hand, explores the baroque orchestral repertoire - and here too, musically and programmatically, bridge the gap to modern times. Musiciansfrom renowned european baroque ensembles and orchestras come together to make their“dream projects with favorite colleagues” come true.