Kathrin Zukowski

The German soprano Kathrin Zukowski is at home in a wide repertory reaching from the Baroque to modern music. From 2018 to 2020 she was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Cologne Opera, and since 2020/21 she has been a member of the ensemble of this company, where she has appeared in roles including Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Ilia (Idomeneo), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Micaëla (Carmen), Musetta (La bohème), Marzelline (Fidelio), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Périzade in Offenbach’s Barkouf, Donna Clara (Der Zwerg), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Princess (Der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren) and Antonia in a children’s version of Les Contes d’Hoffmann.

In the 2024/25 season, alongside appearances in Cologne as Gabriel in Haydn’s The Creation and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and in her role debut as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), she made numerous debuts elsewhere. She performed for the first time at the Vienna State Opera as Ighino in Pfitzner’s Palestrina under Christian Thielemann, and made her debuts in Handel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth with the Bach Consort Wien under Rubén Dubrovsky at the Theater an der Wien, and as the Woodbird (Siegfried) under Christian Thielemann at the Berlin State Opera. She also sings La Mort in Henze’s Das Floß der Medusa under Ingo Metzmacher at the Salzburg Festival.

Guest engagements have taken her to the opera houses in Bielefeld, Braunschweig, Hanover and Karlsruhe and to perform as Arbace in Hasse’s Artaserse with the Hofkapelle München under Michael Hofstetter at the re-opening of the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth. She has also performed with the Tonkunstler Orchestra of Lower Austria at the Vienna Musikverein and
in Grafenegg and has sung Grilletta
(Lo Speziale) at the Haydn Festival in Brühl.

Her contemporary projects include the world premiere of Matej Bonin’s Pepita Lunarium, the collaborative project Schnittstellen [II] and, in 2024, the world premiere of Ondřej Adámek’s INES.

Kathrin Zukowski studied classical guitar and singing at the Detmold University of Music and completed a master’s degree in music theatre and opera singing at the August Everding Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich. She holds scholarships from the Richard Wagner Association Bielefeld and the Hasse Society and is a prize-winner of the Giangiacomo Guelfi Opera Competition in Bolzano.