Anja Petersen

From 2002 to 2007 she was – still under her maiden name – an ensemble member of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater,[1][2] where she performed lyric coloratura roles,[1] including Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Susanna in Mozart's Die Hochzeit des Figaro, Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Olympia in Offenbach's Hoffmanns Erzählungen and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

[3] In the 2007/08 season, she was engaged at the Theater Augsburg where she appeared as Mozart's Despina in Così fan tutte and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

[2] She has worked closely with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln[1] and the Kammersinfonie Bremen,[3] and has also sung with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,[1] the Lautten Compagney, the Main-Barockorchester and the Kammerorchester Regensburg.

She performed Drei Gesänge am offenen Fenster (Three Songs at the Open Window) by Händl Klaus (text) and Arnulf Herrmann (music) in the world premiere in October 2014 at the Herkulessaal in Munich, in the musica viva series.

[3] Parallel to her concert activities, she took on opera roles, for example Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden,[3] at the Theater Bremen, and at the Semperoper in Dresden.