Annette Seiltgen (born 26 June 1964 in Wuppertal[1]) is a German operatic mezzo-soprano/dramatic soprano.
Her father, Ernst Seiltgen [de], was intendant and long-time director of the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, her mother is the opera, concert and oratorio singer Emmy Lisken.
Seiltgen studied singing with her mother at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg.
There she sang all the great roles of the lyrical and dramatic mezzo repertoire among others: Ruggiero (Alcina), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Venus (Tannhäuser), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), the composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Adalgisa (Norma), Fricka (Die Walküre) as well as Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde).
Seiltgen has made guest appearances in Berlin (Komische Oper Berlin), Darmstadt, Dortmund, Essen, Frankfurt, Hanover, Koblenz, Leipzig, Mannheim, Mainz, Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper), Nuremberg, Passau and Stuttgart, as well as on the music stages of Amsterdam, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Geneva, Madrid, Maastricht, Nice, Savonlinna, Santiago de Chile and Strasbourg.