The Berlin mezzo-soprano Anna-Luise Oppelt is internationally active as a concert and opera singer. She is the OPUS KLASSIK laureate of the year 2022.
Anna-Luise Oppelt's varied concert activities as a soloist in 2022/23 include performances at the MDR Music Summer, the Weser Festival, the Köthener Bach Festival, the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, the Thuringian Bach Weeks, the Bach Days Ohrdruf and the summer concerts of the Bach Museum Leipzig. In 2022 she was heard as alto soloist in Bach-Boysen’s St Mark Passion with Musica Poetica in The Hague and Arnstadt. In 2020 she was soloist of the Academy of the Bachwoche Stuttgart. In 2019 she sang the alto part in a staged performance of Bach’s St John Passion conducted by Marcus Creed at Radialsystem Berlin. In 2018 she appeared as soloist with the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie.
In the field of contemporary music, she works closely with the Stiftung St. Matthäus Berlin, the Ensemble Horizonte and the Guardini Foundation, in whose support programme #sogehtsauch she was accepted in 2020. In 2023 she is a soloist at the Randfestspiele Zepernick near Berlin.
She has interpreted numerous roles of the opera repertoire on stage. In 2017 she appeared in the world premiere of the opera »Trip to the Moon« by Andrew Norman under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Philharmonie.
Anna-Luise Oppelt is a scholarship holder of the German Music Council and Neustart Kultur. She is co-founder and tour leader of Bach by Bike, musical cycling tours along the places where J. S. Bach lived. With the Bach by Bike Ensemble, she and violinist Mareike Neumann create their own concert programmes in cooperation with festivals and the Bach sites. Bach by Bike was awarded the international Music Cities Award in the category Best Use of Music to Drive Tourism in 2021 and the OPUS KLASSIK Innovation Award for Sustainability in 2022.
Anna-Luise Oppelt graduated in 2018 with a Master’s degree in opera singing from the Hochschule für Musik Weimar. A study year in Utrecht/Netherlands in baroque violin as well as master classes with Ingeborg Danz, Christa Ludwig, Teresa Berganza, Anke Vondung, Lioba Braun and the Bachakademie Stuttgart complete her versatile education.