She then studied voice with Gertie Charlent at the Akademie für Tonkunst [de] in Darmstadt and at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz.
[1] She also attended the Opernstudio of the Bavarian State Opera,[2] and took master classes with Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Brigitte Fassbaender and Peter Schreier.
From 1995 to 1997 at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, she appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Judith in Bartok's Herzog Blaubarts Burg, Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlos.
[7] Eleonore Büning wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that she, as the young Irish bride delivered to Marke, expresses her desperation forcefully (headline: "Wie wuchtig die junge Braut ihre Verzweiflung herausschleudert!").
[3] She sang the solo in Mahler's Third Symphony at the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 2007 with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.