The soprano Vera-Lotte Boecker is one of the most versatile singers of her generation. In 2022, the specialist magazine “Opernwelt” named her Singer of the Year in its annual critics’ poll.In 2023, she received the Faust Theatre Prize in the musical theatre performer category for her portrayal of Nadja in Georg Friedrich Haas’ opera “Bluthaus” at the Bavarian State Opera. In 2022, the trade magazine “Opernwelt” named her Singer of the Year for the same performance in its annual critics’ poll. This extraordinary production was directed by Claus Guth and musically conducted by Titus Engel.

The new season began with Vera-Lotte’s role debut as Dorota in Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Schwanda (Weinberger) at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Petr Popelka. As Daphne, she returns to the Staatsoper Berlin under the baton of Thomas Guggeis in Romeo Castellucci’s production.

At the Bregenz Festival, she will make her role debut as Agathe in Philip Stölzl’s new production of Freischütz. She will make her debut with the Bergen Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Petrenko as the 5th Maid in Elektra. On the concert platform, she will perform Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at the Musikverein. Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs is on the programme with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and in spring she will be heard for the first time in the soprano role in Mendelssohn’s Paulus at the Vienna Konzerthaus.  She will also be a guest at Christian Gerharer’s Lied Week at Schloss Elmau and will give her first recital together with pianist Sarah Tysman. 

Highlights of the 2022/2023 season included her highly acclaimed role debuts as Daphne (Berlin State Opera, Castellucci/Guggeis) and at the Vienna Festival as Lulu (Freitas/Maxime Pascal). At the Vienna State Opera last season, she celebrated great successes as Sophie (Rosenkavalier, Vienna State Opera under Philippe Jordan), Daughter (Cardillac, Vienna State Opera) and in Calixto Bieito’s staged production of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied under the baton of Lorenzo Viotti. 

In 2022, she was awarded the Austrian Music Theatre Prize in the young talent category for her portrayal of Micaëla in Calixto Bieito’s production of Bizet’s Carmen (Vienna State Opera 2022). In concert, she performed with the Vogler Quartet at the Konzerthaus Berlin and sang the soprano part in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Rafael Payare in Montreal. 

She was a member of the ensemble of the Komische Oper Berlin (2017-2020) and the Vienna State Opera (2020-2022), among others, and sang important roles in her field at both opera houses. Her repertoire ranges from Mozart (Donna Anna, Pamina, Komische Oper Berlin 2018), and Halévy (La Juive, La princesse Eudoxie, Bayerische Staatsoper 2016), to Verdi (La Traviata, Violetta Valéry (Komische Oper Berlin 2018), Rigoletto, Gilda (Vienna State Opera 2022) Falstaff, Nanetta, Vienna State Opera 2022)) to operetta (Die Fledermaus, Adele (Vienna State Opera 2021), Viktoria in Viktoria und ihr Husar (Komische Oper 2019) and Lydia in Weinberger’s Frühlingsstürme (Komische Oper Berlin, Opus Klassik Award 2021). 

In the modern era, her repertoire includes Agnès in Written on Skin (Bolshoi Theatre 2017), Autonoe in Henze’s The Bassarids (Salzburg Festival 2018), Natalie in Prinz von Homburg (Stuttgart State Opera 2018), Iris in Lucia Ronchetti’s Esame di mezzanotte (world premiere of the year), Nadja in G.F. Haas’ Bluthaus (Bavarian State Opera 2022) and Alban Berg’s Lulu in Lulu (Vienna Festival 2023) to her repertoire. 

Vera-Lotte studied singing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, at the Operaakademiet of the Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen) and at the Berlin University of the Arts with Beatrice Niehoff. 

Vera-Lotte Boecker is the soloist at the concert on 22 August 2024