Sophie Rennert

Young mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert was a member of the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project in 2013. From 2014 to 2016 she sang with the Berne Stadttheater.

In 2016 she won the second prize and the audience prize at the International Cesti Competition for Baroque Singing in Innsbruck, having won the third prize in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2014.

Sophie Rennert studied the violin and the piano alongside singing lessons from her mother, the soprano and singing teacher Sigrid Rennert. She completed her studies summa cum laude at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2014, where her teachers were Karlheinz Hanser and Charles Spencer. She has also attended masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Ann Murray and Helmut Deutsch.

Her engagements this summer include not only her Salzburg appearances but also performances at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with Le musiche nove under Claudio Osele and recitals at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Helmut Deutsch and Graham Johnson.

Plans for 2022/23 include Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Charlotte (Werther) and the Muse / Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at Munich’s Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz.

At home in a wide-ranging repertoire extending from the Baroque to the present day, Sophie Rennert appears regularly in well-known opera houses and concert halls that include the Graz Styriarte, the Göttingen Handel Festival and the Mannheim Nationaltheater. She sang one of the Flowermaidens in Parsifal at the 2017 and 2018 Bayreuth Festivals.

Among the orchestras with which Sophie Rennert has appeared are the Vienna Philharmonic, the Spanish National Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, while the conductors under whom she has sung include David Afkham, Ivor Bolton, Semyon Bychkov, Ádám Fischer, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Philippe Jordan, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Jordi Savall and Andreas Spering.

As a song recitalist, she has appeared with Graham Johnson, Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake and Joseph Middleton at the Schubertiade, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Brucknerhaus in Linz, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

Sophie Rennert’s discography includes an album of contemporary vocal works by her father Uli Rennert, a complete recording of Handel’s Lotario, a recording of Vivaldi’s Il Tamerlano with the Accademia Bizantina, in which she appears as Irene, and a CD of Brahms lieder accompanied by Graham Johnson.