The mezzo-soprano Laila Salome Fischer made her debut in 2021 under the baton of Jordi Savall at the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Festival Berlioz in France in Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Since 2015-16 she has been a member of the ensemble at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Here she made important role debuts, including Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Amneris (Aida) and Klytämnestra (Elektra), Adalgisa (Norma), Eboli in "Don Carlos" and Azucena in "Il trovatore". In 2019-20 she made her role debut in the lead role of The Nurse in R. Strauss' opera "The Woman without a Shadow".

Sarah Ferede has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg ensemble since the 2012/13 season. There she could be seen in some important role debuts: Adalgisa in Bellini's "Norma", Santuzza in "Cavalleria rusticana", Sieglinde in "Die Walküre" and Ciesca in "Gianni Schicchi". In 2020 she will make her role debut as Brangäne in a new production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

Past roles included MÉDÉE at the Zurich Opera House with William Christie, CHERUBINO at the Bavarian State Opera Munich with Christof Loy and Konstantinos Carydis and at the Munich Opera Festival 2018. She also appeared at the Grand Hall Budapest as a soloist in the JEREMIAH SYMPHONY under Dennis Russel Davies The title role in Calixto Bieto’s production of CARMEN, and the tragic figure of MÉDÉE by Charpentier with Nicolas Brieger and under the musical direction of Andrea Marcon were very special adventures and great successes.

Dutch mezzosoprano Olivia Vermeulen has established herself in recent years as a versatile soloist of international standing. Having celebrated her début at the Opéra National de Paris in 2019 performing the lead role of Abel in a Romeo Castellucci landmark production of Scarlatti's Il primo omicidio conducted by René Jacobs, Ms. Vermeulen returned to the Berlin Staatsoper, where in 2016 she had made her tumultuously celebrated début in the lead role of Turno in Steffani's Amor vien dal destino. Her exciting new solo CD, Dirty Minds, with pianist Jan Philip Schulze, was released by Challenge Records, including a release concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in 2020. Upcoming projects of the 2020-21 season comprise her highly-awaited debut as Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Zurich Opera House.