Anja Kampe

She is notable for her performances in major opera houses of the works of Richard Wagner and other German and Austrian composers.

She moved to Italy, where she studied further in Turin, with Elio Battaglia, and where she made her professional debut in 1991 in a production of Hänsel und Gretel.

She sang the roles of Freia in Wagner's Das Rheingold and Gerhilde in Die Walküre at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2006) and at the Los Angeles Opera (2007), the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 2006,[1] and Sieglinde in Die Walküre alongside Plácido Domingo at the Washington National Opera in 2003 and 2007.

In 2010 she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the Royal Opera House.

[6] On 19 January 2018, she was awarded the coveted title of Kammersänger in a ceremony on stage at the National Theater in Munich after a performance of Die Walküre in the role of Sieglinde.