Christiane Iven (born 9 March 1965) is a German lied, concert and opera singer as well as a vocal teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
[1] In 1986, while still a student, Iven began her solo activities as a concert and lied singer and was also a permanent member of the NDR radio choir in Hamburg for several years.
There and at various European opera houses, she sang roles like the Feldmarschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Agathe (Der Freischütz), Marie (Wozzeck), Kundry (Parsifal), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Alice Ford (Falstaff), Elvira (Don Giovanni), Emilia Marty (The Makropulos Affair), Sieglinde (Die Walküre) and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde).
Iven gave concerts with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Marc Albrecht, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Teodor Currentzis, Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Heinz Holliger, Sir Neville Marriner, Matthias Pintscher.
She gave Lieder recitals with Burkhard Kehring, Igor Levit, Wolfram Rieger, András Schiff and Jan Philip Schulze.