Mojca Erdmann opened the 2024/25 season with Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, performed with the Boulez Ensemble under the baton of Zubin Mehta at the Pierre Boulez Saal. The season continued with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with members of the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Pierre Boulez Saal, excerpts from Wagner’s Lohengrin as Elsa under Adam Fischer at Copenhagen’s Koncerthuset, Bach’s St John Passion with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana conducted by Lothar Koenigs in Palermo, her role debut in Schoenberg’s Von heute auf morgen at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, and the world premiere of Alex Nante’s Symphony Anahata with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg under Kent Nagano at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.

Highlights of the 2026/27 season include her appearances as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, and Valentine in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots at Theater Bonn.

During the 2025/26 season, Mojca Erdmann appeared as soprano soloist in Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Thomas Søndergård in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. She also reunited with pianist Malcolm Martineau for a series of song recitals.

In the 2023/24 season, Mojca Erdmann made both her role and house debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen as Vitellia in Jetske Mijnssen’s new production of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. She also appeared as Klara and Therese in a new production of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati’s Amerika at Opernhaus Zürich. Equally in demand as a concert and recital artist, she opened the season with Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 under Robert Treviño at the Kursaal in San Sebastián. She subsequently performed Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie at Antwerp’s Queen Elisabeth Hall under Kevin John Edusei, appeared as soprano soloist in Haydn’s Die Schöpfung under Adam Fischer at Müpa Budapest, and gave further acclaimed performances at the Musikverein Wien, the Mozartfest Augsburg, the Baden-Baden Pfingstfestspiele with the SWR Symphonieorchester, as well as in recital with Malcolm Martineau.

The previous season saw Mojca Erdmann make her debut as Doña Clara in Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg at the Ópera de Tenerife. As Artist-in-Residence at the CSO Ada Ankara Concert Hall, she presented three contrasting programmes featuring works by Mendelssohn, Reimann and Schoenberg. She also performed Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with the Copenhagen Philharmonic under Christoph Eschenbach at the Konservatoriets Koncertsal in Copenhagen. Earlier, in 2019, she sang the same work with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Paavo Järvi.

She made her Zurich Opera debut with Wolfgang Rihm’s Aria/Ariadne “Szenarie” under the musical direction of Gianandrea Noseda. In her native Hamburg, she performed Jörg Widmann’s Arche at the Elbphilharmonie and appeared in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater as well as J. S. Bach’s Ich habe genug at the Kölner Philharmonie. Together with pianist Elena Bashkirova, she presented a series of chamber music programmes in Geneva, Andermatt and at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. She also joined Malcolm Martineau at Narodni Dom in Maribor for a recital devoted to works by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

Among the highlights of previous seasons are appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, where Mojca Erdmann performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and the Forest Bird in Wagner’s Siegfried, all under the baton of Fabio Luisi. Zerlina also marked her debut at Madrid’s Teatro Real in 2013. Her debut in the title role of Alban Berg’s Lulu at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, in Andrea Breth’s acclaimed new production conducted by Daniel Barenboim, was met with outstanding critical acclaim. Lulu has since become one of her signature roles, which she has also performed in William Kentridge’s celebrated production at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and in Christoph Marthaler’s award-winning staging at the Hamburg State Opera.

In 2014, she appeared as Marzelline in a new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio at Teatro alla Scala, inaugurating the season-opening performance, traditionally broadcast live around the world. At the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, she performed the Forest Bird in Wagner’s Siegfried with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle. Since making her Salzburg Festival debut in 2006 in the title role of Mozart’s Zaide under Ivor Bolton, she has returned to the Festival as Zelmira in Haydn’s Armida and as Sophie in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. In 2013, she also appeared in several world premieres with the Scharoun Ensemble as part of the Festival.

Internationally renowned for her interpretations of contemporary repertoire, Mojca Erdmann has established herself as one of the leading sopranos of her generation in modern music theatre. She made her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in the world premiere of Takemitsu – My Way of Life under Kent Nagano. In 2009, she created the title role in Wolfgang Rihm’s monodrama Proserpina, a work composed especially for her. Rihm also entrusted her with the first soprano role in his opera Dionysos, premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 before receiving its German premiere at the Staatsoper Berlin in 2012.

Her acclaimed interpretations further include Toshio Hosokawa’s Stilles Meer at the Hamburg State Opera and Jörg Widmann’s monumental opera Babylon at the Staatsoper Berlin. In 2020, she assumed one of the two principal roles in Luca Francesconi’s chamber opera Quartett, based on Heiner Müller’s play of the same name. The German-language premiere took place at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.

Mojca Erdmann’s extensive discography comprises numerous award-winning studio recordings. Among them are the critically acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Bamberger Symphoniker under Jonathan Nott and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle, released by Sony Classical. In 2011, Deutsche Grammophon released her first solo album, Mozart’s Garden, featuring arias by Mozart and his contemporaries. In 2020, NEOS issued Die Schneekönigin, conducted by David Philip Hefti, with Mojca Erdmann in the title role.

Together with Daniel Barenboim at the piano and Zubin Mehta conducting, she recorded Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children at the Pierre Boulez Saal in 2021. Pentatone followed in 2022 with the release of Hans Sommer Orchestral Songs, featuring Mojca Erdmann as a member of the distinguished solo quartet.

Among her notable contemporary creations is also the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s opera South Pole at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2016, conducted by Kirill Petrenko in a production by Hans Neuenfels. She has collaborated with Petrenko on numerous occasions, including performances of Der Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Opera. Their artistic partnership reaches back to her years at the Komische Oper Berlin, where Petrenko served as Principal Conductor. Mojca Erdmann was a member of the company’s ensemble from 1997 until 2005 while simultaneously pursuing her vocal studies.

A particularly significant artistic collaboration has linked Mojca Erdmann with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, resulting in a celebrated recording of Schumann’s Faust-Szenen with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as widely acclaimed performances of Haydn’s Orlando Paladino with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Born in Hamburg, Mojca Erdmann began studying the violin at the age of six and was a member of the children’s chorus of the Hamburg State Opera. Following her secondary education, she studied both violin and voice with Hans Sotin at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. In 2002, she was awarded both First Prize and the Special Prize for Contemporary Music at the German Federal Singing Competition. Three years later, she received the NDR Music Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as the Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer.