Susann Hagel

Born in Dessau, Susann Hagel studied at the music academies of Würzburg and Hamburg and took her opera diploma with distinction, working also with Hanna Ludwig and Norman Shetler. In 1999 she won second prize of the Elise Meyer Foundation in Hamburg and from that year until 2001 belonged to the international opera studio of the Hamburg State Opera. Engagements followed at the Ständetheater in Prague, at Oper Frankfurt and at the Komische Oper Berlin; she has worked freelance since 2004 in opera and concert.