Christiane Karg

Christiane Karg studied at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and while still a student made a much-acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival.
She performs important lyric soprano roles worldwide. She has sung Pamina at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and at the Paris Opéra, Susanna at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice) at La Scala, Milan, Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Vienna State Opera, Pamina, Mélisande, Strauss’s Daphne and Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Hamburg State Opera, Micaëla (Carmen) at the Berlin State Opera and Pamina, Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) at the Bavarian State Opera.
She is also internationally renowned as a concert singer, and performs regularly with orchestras including the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. She has worked with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Iván Fischer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Hengelbrock, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Marek Janowski, Andrew Manze, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko and Christian Thielemann.
Her projects in the 2022/23 season included Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Haydn’s The Creation with the Bamberg Symphony under Giovanni Antonini, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons and Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Harding. She has performed Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Munich Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Christiane Karg regularly gives chamber music and song recitals at the Schubertiaden in Hohenems and Schwarzenberg, and at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Pierre Boulez Saal and the Salzburg Festival.
She is an exclusive artist with harmonia mundi. Her wide-ranging discography has won numerous awards. She has won the ECHO Klassik several times, including in the category ‘Solo Recording’ for her first CD of Lieder, Verwandlung – Lieder eines Jahres.
As the artistic director of the KunstKlang Festival, she conceived a concert series in her home town of Feuchtwangen and is actively involved in music education.
Christiane Karg has received the Bavarian Culture Prize in the Arts category and the Brahms Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society for her artistic achievements.