Ulrike Helzel

She received her vocal training from 1988 onwards with Christa Kern-Pöschel at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.

Her roles there included "Orpheus" in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, "Cherubino" in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, "Hänsel" in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel,"Octavian" in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier and "Fuchs" in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen.

She also sang Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi in contemporary music theatre Infinito nero[2] by Salvatore Sciarrino.

Among other, she sang there as Annina in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, as Wellgundein Wagner's Götterdämmerung, as "Elfe" in Dvořáks's Rusalka, as "Jenny" in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny as "Marcellina" in Mozart's The marriage of Figaro.

There she was "Wellgunde" in Der Ring des Nibelungen as well as the Second Squire and the Flower Girl in Parsifal (from 2008).