Claudia Rohrbach

Claudia Rohrbach studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and received a scholarship from the Deutscher Bühnenverein. After her engagement at the Lucerne Theatre, the soprano joined the ensemble of the Cologne Opera, where she has enjoyed great success ever since.

She has appeared as a guest at the Staatstheater Hannover, Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Bregenz Festival, among others. She has worked with conductors such as Markus Stenz, Claus Peter Flor and Friedrich Haider as well as with directors Christof Loy, Günter Krämer, Helmuth Lohner, Benjamin Schad, Ingo Kerkhof, Carlus Padrissa and Dietrich W. Hilsdorf. She has been a regular guest at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Gretel in "Hänsel und Gretel", Ännchen in "Der Freischütz"). At the Cologne Opera, the winner of the Offenbach Prize has appeared as the Flower Girl in "Parsifal", Zerlina in "Don Giovanni", in the title role of George Frideric Handel's "Alcina", as Governess in Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" and as Agathe in "Der Freischütz". She has appeared as Konstanze, Susanna, Despina, Pamina and First Lady in the Mozart operas "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte" and "Die Zauberflöte".

The contemporary repertoire is also reflected in her roles, as evidenced by the part of Sophie Scholl in Udo Zimmermann's "Weiße Rose" and her participation in the German premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's "Die Antilope". In recent seasons, Claudia Rohrbach has appeared as Great-Grandma Gisse in "Mazeltov, Rachel'e" by Christian von Götz, as well as First Lady in "Die Zauberflöte", Micaëla in "Carmen", Berta in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", Mrs Pogge in "Pünktchen und Anton", Ghita in "Der Zwerg", Despina in "Così fan tutte", Valencienne in "Die lustige Witwe", the Warden in "Elektra", Anna in "Nabucco", Princess Petra von Silistrien in "Eine Frau von Format" and Papagena/First Lady in "Zauberflöte für Jung und Alt".

In season 2025.26, she will once again perform the roles of First Lady in "Die Zauberflöte", Marcellina in "Le nozze di Figaro", and Ortlinde in "Die Walküre".