Heather
Engebretson
Soprano

Heather Engebretson is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has been honoured with numerous awards. In addition to her first operas in the USA, she sang Schubert's Mass in G major at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium and Bach's 'Magnificat' at Alice Tully Hall in New York. She was a member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Hannover and the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she appeared as Violetta ('La traviata'), Donna Elvira ('Don Giovanni'), Konstanze ('Die Entführung aus dem Serail'), Oscar ('Un ballo in maschera') and Euridice ('Orfeo ed Euridice'). In 16/17 she was a member of the ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera, where she sang Musetta in 'La bohème'. She has also appeared in the title role in 'Alcina' at the Bolshoi Theatre, as the Queen of the Night ('Die Zauberflöte') at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as Mimì ('La bohème') at the Komische Oper Berlin and has made guest appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège and in Cagliari. On the concert stage, she has performed 'Messiah' with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Orff's 'Carmina Burana' with the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at the Laeiszhalle. She recently sang Liù ('Turandot') alongside Anna Netrebko and Elsa ('Lohengrin') at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Manon Lescaut at the Klagenfurt Theatre and Katja Kabanowa in Bielefeld. She has already appeared in the title role of 'Salome' at the Theater Basel.