Claudia Mahnke is a German operatic mezzo-soprano, a member of the Oper Frankfurt, with guest appearances at leading opera houses and the Bayreuth Festival.
After the Abitur, she studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.
She performed the title role in Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Simplicius Simplicissimus, in a production shown also at the Munich Opera Festival of 2005.
[1] Mahnke made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2013 as Fricka, Waltraute and Second Norne in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
[2] In 2017, she appeared in Frankfurt as Dido in Les Troyens, convincingly interpreting in the final scene of 25 minutes the heroine's progression from hurt vulnerability to furious despair ("alle Stufen der schmerzlichen Verletztheit und der wütenden Verzweiflung").