Anett Fritsch is one of the most established lyric sopranos of her generation and is a guest at the leading opera houses in Europe. In the current 2024/25 season, she will make her house and role debut as Idamante in Bastian Kraft’s new production of Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, she will make her role debut as Gutrune in Pierre Audi’s new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at La Monnaie in Brussels, where she already appeared last season as Freia in Romeo Castellucci’s new production of Das Rheingold. She will also return to the Volksoper Vienna this season as Hannah Glawari (The Merry Widow) and Frau Fluth (The Merry Wives of Windsor). She will also appear with Giovanni Antonini and the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival and as Contessa in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at the Casino Basel, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, before making her festival debut in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl.

Anett Fritsch had a great success giving her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival with the part of Almirena in Händel’s Rinaldo and with the part of Merione in Gluck’s Telemaco at the Theater an der Wien. She also made a triumphant debut as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Teatro Real Madrid, a production which was also very successful at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and in 2014 appeared at the Wiener Festwochen. The tour through Europe as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with René Jacobs and the Freiburger Barockorchester received a great international response. In 2014 Anett Fritsch made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, in 2015 she returned to Salzburg as Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich she sang Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.

In recent seasons, Anett Fritsch has appeared at the Teatro Real in Madrid as Ilia (Idomeneo), Donna Elvira, Contessa, Pamina and Marzelline (Fidelio), as Contessa at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, in Santiago de Chile as Pamina and at the Opéra de Lausanne as Almirena (Rinaldo). She appeared as Donna Elvira at La Scala in Milan and at the Bastille in Paris, and made her debut as Zdenka in Strauss’ Arabella at the Zurich Opera House. Anett Fritsch returned to the Theater an der Wien as Contessa, as Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), as Alice Ford in the Salieri opera Falstaff and as Anima in the new production of Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo in the production by Robert Carsen and under the musical direction of Giovanni Antonini. She also appeared as Anima under Maestro Antonini at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wroclaw, as well as with Haydn’s The Seasons at the Lucerne Festival, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Bremen Music Festival, in Wroclaw, Bucharest and Antwerp. Anett Fritsch previously appeared at the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin in Purcell’s King Arthur under René Jakobs and returned in the following seasons as Freia (Das Rheingold) and Ortlinde (Die Walküre) in the new Ring production by Dmitri Tcherniakov under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann. Anett Fritsch enjoyed great success at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam as Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante, as well as Fiordiligi and as Donna Elvira. Further guest appearances have taken her to Bilbao as Emma in Fierrabras, Arminda in La finta giardniniera and Marzelline, as well as to Toulouse as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She made her debut at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine as Contessa.

Highlights on the concert stege in recent years have included Philippe Boesmans’ Trakl Lieder with the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sylvain Cambreling at the Bozar in Brussels, with Andrea Marcon and the La Cetra Barockorchester in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Basel, with Bach’s St. John Passion in Rotterdam, as well as numerous concerts with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, most recently in Hasse’s Piramo e Tisbe.

Anett Fritsch studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Music Academy in Leipzig with KS Prof. Jürgen Kurth. In 2001 she was awarded the first prize at the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. She was a laureate at the international competition of the Chamber Opera at Schloss Rheinsberg in 2006 and 2007, where she sang the parts of Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. In the season 2007/08 the Oper Leipzig engaged Anett Fritsch for various parts. From 2009 to 2015 Anett Fritsch was part of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she sang among others Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites) Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Marie (La fille du régiment).