The German soprano Jasmin Delfs was born in Eutin and studied at the Lübeck Academy of Music with Manuela Uhl. From 2021 to 2023 she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where she appeared in roles such as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Naiad (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Vespina (L’infedeltà delusa).
She sang under Kirill Petrenko in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Bavarian State Opera and in Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter at the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2025 she performed the soprano solo in Carmina Burana in a performance given by the Munich Bach Choir at the Isarphilharmonie in Munich.
She made her debut at the Berlin State Opera as the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte). She has also appeared in this role in Munich, at the Stuttgart State Opera and in a version for children at the Vienna State Opera.
She performed the role of Max in Nikolaus Habjan’s production of Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are at the Theater an der Wien, and made her debut at La Scala, Milan, as Blonde in Giorgio Strehler’s production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In summer 2022 she participated in the Young Singers Project of the Salzburg Festival, where she also appeared as Queen of the Night.
In September 2024 she made her debut in the title role of Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival.
Since the start of the 2024/25 season Jasmin Delfs has been an ensemble member at the Semperoper Dresden, where she has appeared in new productions of Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Handel’s Saul and Hans Abrahamsen’s Snow Queen. She has also sung the Queen of the Night, Marzelline (Fidelio) and Adele (Die Fledermaus) in Dresden.
In February 2025 Jasmin Delfs received the CHOROS Award for best newcomer at the SemperOpernball. In summer 2025 she made her debut at the Eutin Festival as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), going on to give concerts in October with the Bamberg Symphony under Manfred Honeck.
Her future engagements include returns to the Bavarian State Opera and the Theater an der Wien. She will also sing Queen of the Night at the Zurich Opera House for the first time.
