Karen Leiber

»The young soprano Karen Leiber is a masterful tragic actress as Valentine (Les Huguenots - Meyerbeer). The warmth and radiance of her voice seem to grow and grow, even as the character she portrays becomes larger than life.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Eleonore Büning, Oct. 2016 Karen Leiber specializes in the dramatic heroines of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century operatic repertoire, which she has performed throughout her native Germany. She gave her celebrated debut as Sieglinde in 2016 side by side with Klaus Florian Vogt and Günther Groissböck. She sang Brangäne at the Nuremberg Staatstheater, and critics compared her to the young Waltraud Meier for her masterful performance as Kundry. She embodied Verdi’s Lady Macbeth in Tatjana Gürbaca’s acclaimed production at the Ma