Soprano Regine Hangler has been a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble since 2013/14. Among the many roles that she has sung for the company are Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Strauss’s Daphne and Ariadne, Elsa (Lohengrin), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Gutrune (Götterdämmerung), Freia (Das Rheingold) and Helmwige (Die Walküre). She has also enjoyed great acclaim as Daphne in concert performances of Strauss’s opera under Marek Janowski in Berlin and under Franz Welser-Möst in New York and Cleveland, as Xanthe (Die Liebe der Danae) at the 2016 Salzburg Festival and as Gutrune at the Tokyo Spring Festival, to which she returned in 2018 for a series of acclaimed performances as Elsa. That same year she made her Bayreuth Festival debut as Helmwige and her La Scala debut as Chrysothemis.
As a concert artist Regine Hangler has been heard in Austria, Germany, Italy, Albania, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Hungary, Israel and Japan. In recent years she has also taken part in many CD recordings as well as radio and television broadcasts.
Regine Hangler began her musical career as a violinist and viola player. Switching to singing allowed her to realize a childhood dream. In addition to her studies at the Carinthian Regional Conservatory and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna – she graduated with honours from both institutions – she also worked with Mara Zampieri in Padua, while numerous masterclasses rounded off her training. She has received a number of scholarships for talented singers, was a finalist in the AsLiCo Competition in Italy and won the second prize at the Birgit Nilsson Competition.
