Soprano Mandy Fredrich is celebrated for her “full, warm, vibrant voice” (ConcertClassic) and her performances, which combine “power and sensuality” (Transfuge) and are characterized by “constant musicality” (Olyrix).

At the beginning of the 2025/26 season, she will make her role debut as the Queen of Hearts in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland in the new production by Elisabeth Stöppler and under the musical direction of Stephan Zilias at the MusikTheater an der Wien. Among other engagements, she will also perform with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Lucie Leguay in Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem at the Elbphilharmonie and in Mahler’s Second Symphony under Pietari Inkinen at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.

In the 2024/25 season, she was once again seen as Agathe (Der Freischütz) at the Stuttgart State Opera and at the Bregenz Festival, as well as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in Tokyo. She celebrated a great success in the title role of the new scenic production of Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Insula Orchestra under Laurence Equilbey, with performances at La Seine Musicale in Paris and the Musikverein in Vienna. She welcomed the New Year together with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra with an operetta gala. She also appeared on the concert stage with Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and with Verdi’s Messa di Requiem with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. In September 2024, her new CD “Traumglück” was released by OehmsClassics/Naxos, on which she interprets songs by Dora Pejačević, Gabriel Fauré, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Richard Strauss together with pianist Matthias Samuil.

In the 2023/24 season, she returned as Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) to both the Berlin State Opera and the Stuttgart State Opera. She also performed alongside Thomas Hampson as Fiordiligi with the Orchestre National de Lyon. Her portrayal of Peri in Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Hamburg Symphony, with whom she also performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, received critical acclaim. Additionally, she sang Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem in a co-production between the theaters in Osnabrück and Münster, and she appeared in recitals in cities like Cologne and Duisburg.

In the 2022/23 season, Mandy Fredrich made her role debut as Gutrune (Götterdämmerung) in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov and under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann at the Berlin State Opera. She debuted as Contessa in a new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Opéra National de Lyon, a role she also performed at the State Theaters in Nuremberg and Hanover. Concert engagements included Franz von Suppé’s Die schöne Galathée with the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Zubin Mehta at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Macerata Opera Festival, and the Encore Classical Music Festival in Marbella. She also performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Duisburg Philharmonic and the Hamburg Symphony, and Haydn’s Creation with the latter.

Fredrich has made notable house debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and at the Royal Danish Opera as Marguerite (Faust). At the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, she achieved great success with three operetta gala concerts. Other significant roles include the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Marzelline (Fidelio), and Frau Fluth in a new production of Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor under Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera.

Mandy Fredrich gained international acclaim at the Salzburg Festival as Queen of the Night under Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She has since performed at the Zurich Opera House, La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian and Hamburg State Operas, New National Theatre Tokyo, and Bregenz Festival. At the Stuttgart State Theater, she has sung many major lyric soprano roles, including Donna Anna, Contessa, Fiordiligi, Marguerite, Micaëla, Antonia, and Iphigénie en Aulide.

As a concert singer, she is also in high demand internationally and has appeared at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste (orchestral songs by Richard Strauss), Lugano Festival (Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang), with the Dresden Kreuzchor (Mozart’s Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem), and at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and La Scala. She has worked with renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Julia Jones, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Originally from Rädigke in Fläming, Mandy Fredrich studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Prof. Robert Gambill and at the Leipzig University of Music and Theater with Prof. Regina Werner-Dietrich, as well as with Margreet Honig and Renata Scotto. In 2010, she won the Competizione dell’Opera in Dresden and received second prize at the Concours Suisse Ernst Haefliger in Gstaad/Bern.