Martina Rüping

Nine consecutive years in the soloist ensemble of the Bayreuth Festival stand at the centre of Martina Rüping's career, which began with permanent engagements at the opera houses of Halle and Cologne and with first prizes at international competitions, among them the coloratura competition in Stuttgart and the award of the German Music Council. Zerbinetta, the Queen of the Night, Konstanze, Gilda and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier have taken her to the state operas of Munich, Berlin and Stuttgart and to Paris, Rome, Helsinki, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Los Angeles, in repertoire reaching from Handel and Mozart to Richard Strauss and the twentieth century. She has worked with Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Muti and Kent Nagano, and with the directors Christoph Schlingensief, Stefan Herheim and Robert Wilson. She has taught singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock, where her class was awarded the Carte Blanche Prize in 2018. In October 2022 she was appointed an honorary professor at the Rostock Hochschule.