Christiane Karg
Soprano Christiane Karg has been heard in celebrated roles at the world’s major opera houses, including the Royal Opera House, Opéra national de Paris, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Vienna State Opera, among others. As artist in residence at the Graz Musikverein, Karg was heard for the first time as Rosalinde in a concert performance of Die Fledermaus, and as the title role in Dvořák’s Rusalka, she made her acclaimed role debut at the Staatsoper Berlin.
Engagements in the current season include Ravel’s Shéhérazade with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin, as well as a tour of Spain with the Gürzenich Orchestra and Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Karg will also appear at the Staatsoper Berlin as the Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
Karg continues to cultivate her passion for song and chamber music projects. She is a regular guest at London’s Wigmore Hall, and has given numerous recitals at the Vienna Musikverein, Pierre Boulez Saal, and Salzburg Festival.
Offstage, Karg is the creator and artistic director of the KunstKlang festival (held in her hometown of Feuchtwangen, Bavaria) while also championing music education for children. For her services, she received the Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein, the Bavarian Culture Prize in the category of art, and the Bavarian Order of Merit.
In spring 2017, Karg released her critically acclaimed solo CD Parfum. She also received the coveted Echo Klassik Award for her recording of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro under Yannick Nézet-Séguin in the category of Opera Recording of the Year. Karg is currently an exclusive artist with Harmonia Mundi and can be heard in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and in her solo album Erinnerung, featuring lieder by Mahler.
Karg completed her studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal.