Christel Loetzsch Mezzo-soprano

Christel Loetzsch studied singing in Weimar, Milan and Leipzig. She was a member of the Dresden Semperoper’s Young Artists Program from 2012 to 2014.

In 2012 she made her Arena di Verona debut as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and in 2013 her San Francisco Opera debut as Dorabella (Così fan tutte). From 2015 to 2018 she was the first mezzo soloist in the Thüringen Philharmonie troupe, where she made many roles debut, including Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Leokadja Begbick (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) and Maddalena (Rigoletto).

In 2019, she made her house debut at La Monnaie, Brussels, in Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld and sang Fricka (Rheingold and Die Walküre) at Landestheater Niederbayern. In November 2020, she performed the title role in Dusapin’s Penthesilea at the Paris Philharmonie with the Orchestre de Paris, during the Festival d'Automne in Paris, then Boulez’s Le Soleil des eaux with the Orchestre de Paris.

Since then, she was The Nurse (Die Frau ohne Schatten) at Frankfurt Opera, Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire with the Dresden Philharmonic, The Drummer (Ullmann‘s Der Kaiser von Atlantis) with the Munich Radio Orchestra, and Flosshilde (Rheingold and Götterdämmerung) and Schwertleite (Die Walküre) with the Dresden Philharmonic, Schwertleite at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and the Young Dante (Il Viaggio, Dante) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

The 2023/24 season sees her in her Lausitz Festival debut in Boesmans’ Julie with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and she returns to La Monnaie, Brussels, for a new production of the Ring by Romeo Castellucci, in the roles of Flosshilde (Rheingold) and Rossweisse (Die Walküre).

Paris Opera debut