Within only a few years the Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann has established herself as one of the leading singers of her generation, performing on the most prestigious stages and at the most important concert halls in Europe. She has worked with leading conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Daniel Harding, Pablo Heras-Casado, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Zubin Mehta, Simon Rattle, Nello Santi, Pinchas Steinberg and Christian Thielemann.
Highlights of 2024/25 have included Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at the Berlin State Opera and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and many performances of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, including on tour with the Utopia Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis. She has sung Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Monte-Carlo and Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder in Aarau. Other concert performances have included Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble under Thomas Hengelbrock, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Franz Welser-Möst at the Lucerne Festival, bel canto arias with the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt. She has also given song recitals in Zurich, Gstaad and Bern.
Earlier opera highlights included Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Adina (L’elisir d’amore) and Blonde (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) at the Vienna State Opera, Ilia (Idomeneo) at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Gilda (Rigoletto) at Theater Basel, Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) at the Lucerne Theatre, Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) at La Scala, Milan, and Marie (La Fille du régiment) at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. In 2021 she sang Bellezza in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Salzburg Festival, where she returned in 2022 as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte).
Regula Mühlemann has appeared in several opera films, including as Ännchen in Der Freischütz and as Amore in a filmed adaptation of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. As an exclusive artist with Sony Classical, she released her debut album Mozart Arias in 2016. This was followed by the CD of Baroque arias Cleopatra (2017), Lieder der Heimat (2019), and also Mozart Arias II (2020) and Fairy Tales (2022), both of which were awarded an OPUS Klassik.
In 2018 she was awarded an OPUS Klassik as Young Singer of the Year.
