Ulrike Sonntag

Ulrike Sonntag (born 1959) is a German operatic soprano and academic voice teacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

She was a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1991 to 1994, where she appeared as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, and in the Strauss roles Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier and Zdenka in Arabella, among others.

[1] Sonntag has recorded sacred music, including Bach's Mass in B minor in 1988 with Helmuth Rilling conducting the Gächinger Kantorei and the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester.

[4] In 1996, she was a soloist in a recording of Paul Hindemith's oratorio Das Unaufhörliche (The Never-Ending), based on texts by Gottfried Benn, with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Lothar Zagrosek.

[5] She recorded works by women composers, conducted by Helmut Wolf: Fanny Hensel's Oratorio based on Biblical texts and two psalm settings by Lili Boulanger.