The French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig has established herself as one of the most captivating lyric singers of her generation. Following two years in the Opera Studio of the Berlin State Opera she became a permanent member of the company’s ensemble from 2017 to 2022, and performed roles there including Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Violetta (La traviata), Diane (Hippolyte et Aricie), Natascha in Beat Furrer’s Violetter Schnee, Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni).
Other important appearances have included Pamina, Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Elvira (I puritani) and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at the Paris Opéra, Musetta (La bohème) and Massenet’s Manon at the Zurich Opera House and at the Vienna State Opera, Salome at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Countess Almaviva at La Scala, Milan, and the Bavarian State Opera. In 2024 she made her role debut as Mimì (La bohème) and sang in three Donizetti works at the Grand Théâtre de Genève: Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux. Since making her debut at the Salzburg Festival in Haydn’s Creation, she has appeared here as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Giulietta (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and Countess (Capriccio).
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include(d) Micaëla (Carmen) at the Vienna State Opera, Alcina on tour with il Pomo d’Oro, Manon at the Hamburg State Opera, Mitridate, re di Ponto at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Charpentier’s Louise in Aix-en-Provence. She also sang in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Orchestre de Paris.
On the concert platform she has performed with renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonics and the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and has collaborated with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Fabio Luisi, Simon Rattle, Franz Welser-Möst and Massimo Zanetti.
As an exclusive artist with Warner Classics / Erato she has released three solo albums: Miroir(s) (2018), Morgen (2020) and Mozart x 3 (2022). In April 2025 her recording Songs by Rita Strohl, Volume 1 was awarded a BBC Music Magazine Award.
Elsa Dreisig is an ambassador for the project Opera for Peace, won first prize in Operalia in 2016 and was awarded the Danish Crown Prince Couple’s Cultural Award in 2019.
