Ute Selbig

As a member of the ensemble of the State Opera of Saxony, Ute Selbig is regularly cast in leading roles that require a lyrical soprano, such as Pamina, Susanna, Fiordiligi, Elvira, Angelica, Agathe and Micaela. She has also given guest performances in almost every country in Europe, has appeared more than once in the Far East and sings regularly in some of the big music centres of North America. She has given concerts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra and of course the Dresdner Staatskapelle and Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig – to mention just a few of her musical partners. In addition to her many performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich State Opera, the Grand Theatre de Geneve and at the Opera Festival in Zürich, she also collaborates closely with the San Diego Opera, where she has appeared as a guest performer in at least one new production every year since 1998 – in Mozart Year 2006 as Pamina in The Magic Flute. As a winner of the Bach Prize of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, Ute Selbig is frequently involved in projects with the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the Choir of St. Thomas’s in Leipzig, with which she recently toured South Korea and Japan. One of the highlights of her career to date was her participation in the series of concerts given in honour of the inauguration of the new Church of Our Lady in her native Dresden.