Marina Viotti
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The 2025/26 season sees Marina performing Carmen, one of her signature roles, at the Dallas Opera, her first staged production in the USA. Also at the Greek National Opera in Athens, she will take on this role.
Besides a new production of Die Fledermaus, which brings her back on stage of the Zurich Opera, she will also return to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia).
Marina Viotti is also a versatile and passionate concert singer. She will for example be on the concert stage at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival with the Orchestra of the Opera Royal de Versailles, in Amsterdam with the Nederlands Philhamonisch Orkest, with Le Concert de la Loge at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysée and be on tour in Switzerland with Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Marina Viotti has developed several individual recital programs, accompanied by small ensemble, for example by piano and saxophone, which she presents beyond others at the Gstaad New Year Festival, in Strasbourg and Liechtenstein.
The versatile musician Marina Viotti first studied the flute, experimented with jazz, gospel and heavy metal and gained a master’s degree in philosophy and literature before beginning her vocal training with Heidi Brunner in Vienna, which she continued at the Lausanne University of Music with Brigitte Balleys. She completed her studies with a soloist’s diploma and completed her training with a bel canto study programme with Raul Gimenez.
First engagements took her to the Lausanne Opera, the Lucerne Theatre and, as part of the young ensemble, to the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Meanwhile, she has become an internationally sought-after artist who performs at the internationally most prestigious opera houses.
Her interpretation of Charlotte in Jules Massenet’s Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris was highly acclaimed by both critics and the audience. Further recent highlights include Orlofski in Amsterdam in Barry Kosky’s production of Die Fledermaus, Siébel (Faust) at the Opera National de Paris, Muse/Nicklausse in Tales of Hoffmann, as well as her Carmen debut at the Zurich Opera House, Maddalena (Rigoletto) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette at La Scala in Milan, Alceste at the Rome Opera and Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) in Paris, just to name a few. She also appeared on stage in the title role of La Périchole under the musical direction of Marc Minkowski at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where she also performed Megacle in Vivali’s opera L’Olimpiade and in the title role of La Cenerentola.
In addition to her extensive activities on the opera stage, Marina Viotti is also a sought-after concert singer. She recently made her USA debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann with concertos of Bruckner’s Te Deum.
Past concert-engagements have taken her to the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Grand Théâtre de Génève and to Grafenegg as part of the “Schlossklänge” festival. Her concert repertoire includes, among others: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Haydn), Beethoven’s Mass in D major and Symphony No. 9, Kindertotenlieder (Mahler) with the OCL, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (Schumann), La petite messe solennelle (Rossini), Verdi’s Requiem, El amor Brujo (De Falla) with the Ochestre de la Suisse Italienne, La Poème de l’amour et de la mer (Chausson), to name but a few. She is regularly invited to festivals (Lavaux Classics, Solothurn Classics, Label Suisse) to present her versatile programmes “Love has no borders”, “Music has no borders” (both with a small ensemble), “About last night” (with piano) or “Porque existe otro querer” (with guitarist Gabriel Bianco). The latter has also been released on CD alongside her concert programme “A tribute to Pauline Viardot” with Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christophe Rousset.
A particular highlight in Marina Viotti’s career was the invitation to perform at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. At the beginning together with the metal band Gojira, then transitioning into the Habanera from Bizet’s opera Carmen – then accompanied by a classical orchestra, this highly acclaimed performance demonstrated the artist’s versatility. The success of this performance was crowned with a Grammy Award in February 2025.
Marina Viotti has won prizes at several competitions. She won the first price of the Kattenburg Competition in Lausanne in 2017, the 3rd prize at the “Concours de Genève” 2016, the International Bel Canto Prize at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad 2015 and the first prize and the Musician’s Prize at the International Competition of Mâcon 2014. In April 2019, Marina Viotti was honoured with the “Mazars Young Singer Award” as the best young singer at the prestigious International Opera Awards in London. In 2023, she was honoured as “Artiste lyrique de l’année” (best classical singer of the year) at the Victoires de la Musique, the most important music award ceremony in France and in 2022 she was awarded with the Swiss Music Prize.
In 2025, she received the great honour of being awarded ‘Chevalière de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French Ministry of Culture.
September 2025 – For the most recent biography, please contact Nicola Kamphausen
