Juliane Banse

Born in southern Germany and raised in Zurich, soprano Juliane Banse first studied with Paul Steiner and Ruth Rohner before completing her training with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos. She made her debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Komische Oper in Berlin when she was only 20; this was followed by engagements at the Vienna and Bavarian Staatsoper companies well as at Zurich Opera, where she had great success appearing in the world premiere of Holliger’s Schneewittchen in 1998. Originally at home in the lyric repertoire, Banse’s engagements also extend to such roles as the Figaro Countess, which she first sang at the Salzburg Festival in 2006; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni; Schumann’s Genoveva; Tatiana in Eugene Onegin; Grete in Schreker’s Der ferne Klang; and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkava lier. In 2014, she appeared at Lyric Opera of Chicago as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and made her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera as Zdenka in Strauss’s Arabella. She took part in the world premiere of Holliger’s
latest opera Lunea in Zurich in 2018, and, in 2019, appeared in the title role of Braunfels’s Jeanne d’Arc at Opernhaus Köln. Banse worked for many years with Claudio Abbado;
she has also performed with Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, and Franz Welser-Möst. Last but not least, her acclaimed lieder interpretations are documented on numerous award-winning CDs. She received the Echo Klassik Award twice: for Braunfels’s Jeanne d'Arc and for Mahler’s Eighth under David Zinman. Juliane Banse has been a professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since the winter of 2020-21.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL (IMF) debut on 5 September 1996 with the lieder project Du holde Kunst (“Oh Lovely Art”).

July 2021