Miriam Kutrowatz

n the coming season, Miriam Kutrowatz returns to the Opernhaus Zürich as Atalanta in Handel’s Serse, following her debut there in May 2024 as Eurydice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. Further engagements include a guest appearance at the Komische Oper Berlin as Edwige in Offenbach’s operetta Robinson Crusoe, as well as her debut at the Concertgebouw performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Klaus Mäkelä. As part of the Johann Strauss anniversary year, she will be heard in Strauss’s Der Zigeunerbaron and in a commemorative concert at the Musikverein Vienna. With Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, also at the Musikverein Vienna and at the Kraków Philharmonic, the soprano adds another major work of her repertoire. Under Semyon Bychkov, Miriam Kutrowatz will perform Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and with the Czech Philharmonic in Prague.

The Vienna-born soprano began her career in 2020 as a member of the Young Ensemble of the Theater an der Wien (JET), where she made her highly successful stage debut at the Wiener Kammeroper as Idaspe in Vivaldi’s Il Bajazet. There and at the Theater an der Wien she subsequently appeared, among others, as Niece 1 (Peter Grimes), Zerlina (Mozart, Don Giovanni), Marie (Lortzing, Der Waffenschmied), and L’Amour (Gluck, Orphée).

From 2022 to 2024 she was a member of the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera, where she debuted as Papagena and appeared in roles including Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Sandman and Dew Fairy (Hänsel und Gretel), Pousette (Manon), the Falcon, Guardian of the Temple Threshold and First Handmaiden (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Gianetta (L’elisir d’amore), Hanne (Die Jahreszeiten), Flower Maiden (Parsifal), and Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail for children). For the latter she was nominated for the Austrian Music Theatre Award 2024 in the category “Female Young Artist.” She has sung under distinguished conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Philippe Jordan, Alexander Soddy, Gianluca Capuano, and Pablo Heras-Casado.

At the Salzburg Festival 2021, Miriam Kutrowatz made her debut in the children’s opera Vom Stern, der nicht leuchten konnte (E. Naske), portraying the title role of the Star (“…above all Miriam Kutrowatz, who lends the shy star her voice with crystal-clear soprano.” Der Standard).

Concert highlights include Handel’s oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Bellezza) at Munich’s Gärtnerplatztheater, Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Musikverein Vienna and the Vienna Konzerthaus, Handel’s Messiah at the Musikverein Graz, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg under Semyon Bychkov, and La Lotta d’Ercole con Acheloo (Steffani) at the Cologne Philharmonie. In 2022, Miriam Kutrowatz stepped in at short notice for Christmas in Vienna at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

At the Styriarte Festival 2020, the soprano appeared as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni under Michael Hofstetter. She has since returned to the Styrian festival in various programs: in 2021 under Jordi Savall with Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi’s Magnificat; in 2022 with Charpentier’s Te Deum and Bach’s Magnificat; in 2023 with Beethoven’s Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II and Mozart’s Coronation Mass; and in 2024 again under Jordi Savall with Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor and Handel’s Alexander’s Feast under Alfredo Bernardini.

Further works in her repertoire include Mozart’s motet Exsultate, jubilate, which she has performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus and with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, and Vivaldi’s Gloria.

Past operatic roles also include Alinda in Cavalli’s Il Giasone, Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, and Morgana in Handel’s Alcina at the festival summer “JOpera.”

Miriam Kutrowatz is a three-time prizewinner of the International Cesti Singing Competition for Baroque Opera 2019 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and a semifinalist in the Glyndebourne Opera Cup 2020.

She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with KS Edith Lienbacher and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has attended masterclasses with, among others, Marjana Mijanovic, Brigitte Fassbaender, Laura Aikin, Linda Watson, and Malcolm Martineau, and received training in contemporary dance with Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich.