Sarah Ferede

After her first engagements at the Landestheater Coburg, the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a Franz-Josef-Weisweiler scholarship holder and the Staatstheater Braunschweig, the German-Ethiopian mezzo-soprano Sarah Ferede, who comes from Hamburg, has been an ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein since 2012. She is a multiple prize winner of renowned singing competitions, including "Wiesbadener Mozartpreis 2007", "Bundeswettbewerb Gesang 2010" in Berlin (special prize) and "Competizione dell'Opera 2010" of the Semperoper Dresden (special prize). She received her private vocal training with Prof. Charlotte Lehmann in Hanover.

Guest engagements have taken her to the Hanover State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin (Boulotte/Barbe-bleue) the Theater Bonn (Santuzza) and the Nationaltheater Mannheim (Olga/Eugen Onegin).

As part of her busy international concert schedule, she has worked with conductors such as Adam Fischer, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Ulf Schirmer, Charles Dutoit, Kent Nagano and Stefan Soltesz. On the complete recording of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" with the Duisburger Philharmoniker conducted by Axel Kober, she can be heard as Sieglinde and Waltraute ("Götterdämmerung").

At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein she made her debut as Adalgisa (Bellini "Norma"), Charlotte (Massenet "Werther") and Eboli (Verdi "Don Carlos"). Other important roles were Hänsel and Gertrud (Humperdinck "Hänsel und Gretel"), Sieglinde (Wagner "Die Walküre"), Waltraute and 2nd Norn (Wagner "Götterdämmerung"), Hippolita (Schreier "Schade, dass sie eine Hure war"), Prinz Orlofsky (J. Strauß "Die Fledermaus") as well as Donna Elvira (Mozart "Don Giovanni") and Vitellia (Mozart "La clemenza di Tito"). In the 2023/24 season, Sarah Ferede appeared there as 2nd Lady (Mozart's "The Magic Flute"), Santuzza (Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana") and Mère Marie in Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites", among others. Three new productions are on her agenda at Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2024/25: Yü Pei in Zemlinsky's "Kreidekreis", Giulietta in "Les contes d'Hoffmann" and the Foreign Princess in "Rusalka".

With her role debut as Kundry in Michael Thalheimer's new production of "Parsifal" at her home theatre, as well as Waltraute in Andreas Homoki's new production of "Götterdämmerung" at Zurich Opera House, the 2023/24 season held two exciting Wagner premieres in store for Sarah Ferede.