BIO
The Salzburg-born mezzo-soprano Franziska Weber first studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the class of Kammersänger Prof. Ildikó Raimondi. She then completed master's degrees in music theatre/opera with Kammersänger Prof. Christiane Iven and Okka von der Damerau at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich, as well as in concert singing with Talia Or at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She participated in masterclasses with, among others, Snežana Brzakovic, Prof. Claudia Visca, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, and Kammersänger Thomas Quasthoff.
Even during her bachelor's studies, she had the opportunity to sing the role of an apprentice in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at La Scala in Milan under the direction of Daniele Gatti, and to perform as a soloist in Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître with the Ensemble oenm at the Mozarteum Foundation's Dialogue Festival. Her repertoire includes, among others, Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Third Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel, Sesto in Handel's Giulio Cesare, and Annina/Flora in Verdi's La Traviata. At the August Everding Theatre Academy, she sang several times with the Munich Radio Orchestra, including under the musical direction of Ivan Repušić, Patrick Hahn, and Christian Jost. Franziska Weber also sang in the world premieres of Nachtsonne by Katrin Klose in Salzburg, in C:\>title Labyrinth by Hauke Berheide and Amy Stebbins at the Staatstheater Augsburg and in nimmersatt by the composition duo Eve Georges & Jiro Yoshioka at the Biennale 2024 in Munich.
Franziska Weber works as a lieder and concert singer in Germany and Austria. She is a prize winner of the 2019 Oder-Spree Opera Festival and the 2020 Competition for Banned Music in Schwerin, and was a scholarship recipient of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich from 2021 to 2024. Since the 2024/25 season, she has been a permanent ensemble member at the Theater Altenburg Gera, where she can currently be seen as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana , Maria von Magdala in the rare opera Die Toten Augen by Eugen d'Albert, and as Irma in the operetta Meine Schwester und Ich by Ralph Bernatzky.