Overview
Christine Schäfer
Known For
The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel...
The Metropolitan Opera: Hansel and Gretel
This deliciously dark take on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy...
The Marriage of Figaro
This release contains the celebrated 2006 production of Mozart's Nozze...
An Advent Concert of Music by Bach
Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Vienna and Arnold Schoenberg...
The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the...
Biography
Christine Schäfer is a German operatic soprano. She studied from 1984 until 1991 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. Her repertoire contains several baroque operas, Bach cantatas, and many of the great Mozart roles, along with modern pieces. In 1995, she performed to great acclaim during the Salzburg Festival as Lulu in Berg's opera of that name, a part she would later sing at The Met and at Glyndebourne.