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Miriam Kutrowatz

Next season, Miriam Kutrowatz will return to Zurich Opera House as Atalanta in Handel's Serse after making her debut there as Eurydice in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in May 2024. She will also appear at the Komische Oper Berlin as Edwige in Offenbach's operetta Robinson Crusoe and make her debut at Het Concertgebouw with Mahler's 8th Symphony under Klaus Mäkela. As part of the Johann Strauss anniversary year, she will perform in Strauss' Gypsy Baron and at a commemorative concert at the Vienna Musikverein. With Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, also at the Vienna Musikverein and at the Philharmonie Krakow, the soprano adds another important work in her repertoire. Under Semyon Bychkov, Miriam Kutrowatz will perform Bach's Mass in B minor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. 

The Viennese began her career in 2020 as a member of the young ensemble of the Theater an der Wien (JET), where she made her highly successful stage debut as Idaspe in A. Vivaldi's Il Bajazet, where she made her highly successful stage debut at the Vienna Chamber Opera. She subsequently appeared there and at the Theater an der Wien as Niece 1(Peter Grimes), Zerlina (Mozart, Don Giovanni), Marie (Lortzing, Der Waffenschmied) and L'Amour (Gluck, Orphée), among others.

2022-2024 she was a member of the opera studio of the Vienna State Opera, debuted there as Papagena and was in roles such as Barbarina(Le Nozze Di Figaro), Sand- und Taumännchen(Hänsel und Gretel), Pousette(Manon), Falke, Hüter der Schwelle des Tempels and 1. Dienerin(Die Frau ohne Schatten), Gianetta(L'Elisir d'Amore), Hanne (Die Jahreszeiten), Blumenmädchen(Parsifal) and Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder). For the latter, she was nominated for the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2024 in the category "young female talent". She has sung under renowned conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Adam Fischer, Bertrand de Billy, Phillipe Jordan, Alexander Soddy, Gianluca Capuano and Pablo Heras-Casado. 

At the 2021 Salzburg Festival, Miriam Kutrowatz made her debut in the children's opera "Vom Stern der nicht leuchten konnte" (E. Naske) where she played the title role of the star. ("...above all Miriam Kutrowatz, who gives the shy star her voice with a crystal-clear soprano." Der Standard)

Highlights on the concert platform include Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Bellezza) at Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater, Mozart's Requiem and Bach's Great Mass in B minor at the Vienna Musikverein and Vienna Konzerthaus, Handel's Messiah at the Musikverein Graz Mahler's 8th Symphony at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg under Semyon Bychkov, as well as La Lotta d'Ercole con Acheloo (Steffani) at the Philharmonie Cologne. In 2022, Miriam Kutrowatz stepped in at short notice for "Christmas in Vienna" at the Vienna Konzerthaus.

At the Styriarte 2020, the soprano sang Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni under Michael Hoffstetter. Since then, she has returned to the Styrian festival in various programs: G. F. Handel's Dixit Dominus and A. Vivaldi's Magnificat under Jordi Savall in 2021, Charpentier's Te Deum and Bach's Magnificat in 2022, Beethoven's Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II and Mozart's Coronation Mass in 2023 , as well as Mozart's Great Mass in C minor again under Jordi Savall and Handel's Alexander's Feast under Alfredo Bernardini in 2024.

Other works in her repertoire include the cantata Exultate Jubilate (W. A. Mozart), which she has already performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus and with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Mahler's 4th Symphony and Vivaldi's Gloria .

Past roles on the opera stage also include Alinda in Cavalli's Il Giasone, Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel at the Schönbrunn Palace Theater and Morgana in Handel's Alcina at the "JOpera" festival summer.

Miriam Kutrowatz is a three-time winner of the International Cesti Singing Competition for Baroque Opera 2019 at the Innsbruck Festival and a semi-finalist at the Glyndenbourne Opera Cup 2020.

She completed her bachelor's and master's degree with KS Edith Lienbacher and Florian Boesch at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She attended master classes with Marjana Mijanovic, Brigitte Fassbaender, Laura Aikin, Linda Watson and Malcolm Martineau, among others, and received lessons in contemporary dance from the Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich.

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