Annika Schlicht

Born in Stuttgart, she studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik «Hanns Eisler» Berlin under Renate Faltin. While still a student, she was engaged by the international opera studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. In 2015, she was directly engaged by the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Invitations soon led her to the Oper Leipzig, the Opéra national de Paris, and to the festivals in Salzburg and Bregenz. Her repertoire includes Adriano (Rienzi), Fenena (Nabucco), Mrs. Quickly (Falstaff), Prinz Orlovsky (Die Fledermaus), Auntie (Peter Grimes), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito), Fricka (Ring des Nibelungen) and Walküre, and she has also participated in various world premieres such as Marc-André Dalbavie's Charlotte Salomon and most recently Aribert Reimann's L’invisible.

Recent engagements have taken her to Munich, Paris, Brussels, Bergen, Hamburg, Dresden, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, as well as to Essen as a concert singer, performing Mahler's Lied von der Erde and Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder in Italy, and at the Konzerthaus Berlin with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for de Falla's El sombrero de tres picos. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Annika Schlicht was engaged as a soloist for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the UNESCO World Orchestra for Peace. For the recording of the Croatian Glagolitic Requiem (Igor Kuljerić), she won the International «Classical Music Award» as the alto soloist with the BR Choir and the Munich Radio Orchestra (Ivan Repušić).