The German soprano Simone Schneider is one of the leading interpreters of the great Strauss and Wagner repertoire. With her brilliant voice and exceptional expressive power, she has demonstrated her outstanding talent in the young dramatic repertoire in roles such as Strauss’ Salome, the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Chrysothemis in Elektra, Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre.

In the 2026/27 season, Simone Schneider will once again be heard in key roles from the Wagner repertoire: at the Bavarian State Opera, she will take on the role of Brünnhilde in Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Wagner’s Siegfried. At the Vienna State Opera, she will make her role debut as Kundry in Wagner’s Parsifal under Simone Young. At Staatsoper Stuttgart, she will appear as the Marschallin in a new production of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season included her appearances as Senta in Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at the Hamburg State Opera, as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at Staatsoper Stuttgart, as well as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Vienna State Opera under Pablo Heras-Casado. On her return to the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, she also impressed as Chrysothemis in Strauss’ Elektra.

Since 2006, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble and, since 2015, a Kammersängerin of Staatsoper Stuttgart, where she has appeared in numerous leading roles – including Sieglinde (Die Walküre) and Brünnhilde (Siegfried) in Der Ring des Nibelungen, Elsa (Lohengrin), the title roles in Ariadne auf Naxos and Medea, the Marschallin (Rosenkavalier), and, most recently, Salome in a production directed by Kirill Serebrennikov – an interpretation celebrated as a sensation by audiences and critics alike.

Alongside her engagements in Stuttgart, Simone Schneider has appeared as a guest at major opera houses including the Hamburg State Opera, the Semperoper Dresden, Oper Leipzig, Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Her major successes include appearances as Leonore (Fidelio), the Empress (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Senta (Der fliegende Holländer), as well as her highly acclaimed role debut as Brünnhilde in Siegfried.

In the concert field, Simone Schneider regularly performs with leading orchestras, including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Stuttgart State Orchestra and the Berlin Staatskapelle. Her concert repertoire includes works by Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss, Verdi, Dvořák, Bruckner and Mendelssohn. In both the concert and opera fields, she works with renowned conductors such as Franz Welser-Möst, Kent Nagano, Adam Fischer, Philippe Jordan, Semyon Bychkov, Axel Kober, Asher Fisch, Marek Janowski, Ulf Schirmer, as well as Helmuth Rilling, Manfred Honeck, Philippe Herreweghe, Herbert Blomstedt, Hartmut Haenchen and many others.

Born in Hagen, Simone Schneider studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. While still a student, she became a member of the Bavarian State Opera’s Opera Studio in Munich, where she attracted particular attention for her performances in works of the modern repertoire.