Heather
Engebretson Soprano

Heather Engebretson is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has won numerous awards. In addition to her first operas in the USA, she sang Schubert's Mass in G major at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and Bach's ‹Magnificat› at Alice Tully Hall in New York. She was a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera and the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden, where she appeared as Violetta in ‹La traviata›, Donna Elvira in ‹Don Giovanni›, and Euridice in ‹Orfeo ed Euridice›, among other roles. In 2016/17, 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 Theater, as the Queen of the Night in ‹Die Zauberflöte› at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and as Mimì in ‹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, Orff's ‹Carmina Burana› with the Dortmund Philharmonic, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. She recently sang Liù in ‹Turandot› and Elsa in ‹Lohengrin› in Wiesbaden, Manon Lescaut at the Theater Klagenfurt, and Katja Kabanowa in Bielefeld. Her roles at Theater Basel include the title role in ‹Salome›, Micaëla in ‹Carmen›, Ortlinde in ‹Die Walküre›, Gutrune in ‹Götterdämmerung›, and, in the 2025/2026 season, Verdi's ‹Lady Macbeth› in a production by Herbert Fritsch.