Constance Heller
The mezzo soprano Constance Heller was born and grew up in the pictu­resque town of Laufen on Bavaria‘s south-eastern border with Austria. She first appeared on stage during her school years, playing lead roles in pre­mieres of mystery plays by Cesar Bres­gen, and was thenceforth eager to pursue a singing career. After leaving school, she studied singing at the Mo­zarteum University of Salzburg, where she attained a Master of Arts with di­stinction. During her studies, she made her operatic debut in the twin roles of the Muse and Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann at Giessen Municipal Theat­re, followed by numerous other opera­tic and concert performances.

Constance Heller debuted at the Ber­lin State Opera in the role of Anna Kennedy in Maria Stuarda in 2006 and has performed there in the operas The Magic Flute (Everding and Sharon), La Traviata, Faust, Elektra, The Gam­bler and Parsifal (with Plácido Domin­go in the title role). She appeared in Moses und Aron in Tokyo during the Berlin State Opera‘s tour of Japan. Constance Heller also has close ties with the Dresden Semperoper, whe­re she performed in Moses und Aron, Faust, Elektra and Wagner‘s Ring cycle. In recent seasons, Constance Heller has sung at venues including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Ruhrtriennale arts festival, the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singa­pore, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Mu­nich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Co­logne Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzert­haus, the Blaibach Konzerthaus, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, the Municipal Theatre of Bern, the Teatro dell‘Opera di Roma, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Leipzig Ope­ra, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Theater Erfurt and, under a fixed contract, at the Schwerin State Theatre.

Her repertoire encompasses all the main breeches roles of the mezzo category, numerous parts in Richard Wagner‘s operas, the roles of Olga, Paulina, Fenena, Ulrica, Amneris, Mig­non, Dalila and Klytaemnestra as well as all the major oratorios and concert pieces. She has worked with such con­ductors as Jonas Alber, Alain Altinog­lu, Daniel Barenboim, Michael Boder, Anthony Bramall, Johannes Debus, Asher Fisch, Claus Peter Flor, Alan Gilbert, Thomas Guggeis, Daniel Huppert, Leo Hussain, Alexander Joel, Axel Kober, Yuri Lebedev, Kent Naga­no, Alondra de la Perra, Julien Salemkour, Peter Schneider, Alexander Soddy, Stefan Soltesz, Chris­tian Thielemann, Sebastian Weigle, Simone Young and Lothar Zagrosek in productions by Willy Decker, Peter Dehler, Michiel Dijkema, Dieter Dorn, Bernd Eichinger, August Everding, Bar­bara Frey, Nicolas Joel, Guy Joosten, Dieter Kaegi, Philipp Kochheim, Niko­laus Lehnhoff, Peter Mussbach, Georg Rootering, Yuval Sharon, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Keith Warner and Karsten Wiegand. Her discography includes recordings of the operas The Gambler (Unitel/Ba­renboim), Moses und Aron (EuroArts/Boder) and Elektra (Opus Arte/Thiele­mann) on DVD as well as Thielemann‘s CD Elektra (Deutsche Grammophon).

Besides music theatre, she has perfor­med new and rediscovered works with pianist Gerold Huber in recitals and for CD release. 2016 saw the release of her album Fahrt in die Welt (travelling the world) with songs by Edmund Nick after texts by Erich Kästner on the label Spektral. Currently released is the album Mignons Sehnen–Lieder von Hans Sommer, in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the label Solo Musica (Sony Music).