Soprano Mandy Fredrich is celebrated for her captivating performances in some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses.

In the 2024/25 season, she will reprise her role as Agathe in Der Freischütz at the Stuttgart State Theater, after just having sung it on the Stage on the Lake at the Bregenz Festival in the summer of 2024. She will perform in Salome under Mark Elder at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, appear as Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) in Tokyo and welcome the New Year with an operetta gala with the Duisburg Philharmonic. Her new CD “Traumglück” in collaboration with pianist Matthias Samuil featuring songs by Dora Pejačević, Gabriel Fauré, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Richard Strauss, will be released in September 2024 by OehmsClassics/Naxos.

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 frequently appears 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.