Elisabeth Freyhoff

The German-Georgian emerging singer Elisabeth Freyhoff impresses with a warm lyric soprano, strong stage presence and pronounced musicality. Her operatic repertoire ranges from Mozart and Strauss to contemporary music theatre. She also devotes herself intensively to concert and song repertoire and regularly appears on the concert platform.

In the upcoming 2026/27 season, Elisabeth Freyhoff will sing Amanda (Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti) at the opening event of Musikfest Berlin 2026 (Berliner Festspiele), together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nicholas Collon at the Philharmonie Berlin. Prior to this, two concerts will take place as part of the Helsinki Festival at the Helsinki Music Centre, marking the Finnish premiere of the work.

Further guest engagements will take her, among other places, to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and the Oper Köln, where she will participate in two world premieres. She has also been invited back to the Theater Münster for the new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, in which she will sing Cherubino.

In the concert field, Elisabeth Freyhoff will make her debut at the Kölner Philharmonie with Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël under the musical direction of Christoph Poppen. Further highlights include Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem for the first time with the Streicherakademie Bozen under the direction of Clau Scherrer, with concerts in South Tyrol, as well as Mendelssohn’s Elias with the Münchner Bach-Chor under the direction of Howard Arman at the Isarphilharmonie München.

In the 2025/26 season, she sang at the Tage Alter Musik in Herne in Antonio Salieri’s La Grotta di Trofonio with the Hofkapelle München and also made her role and house debut in a new production at the Theater Münster as Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten). At the same time, she completed her second season in the opera studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, where she could be heard, among other roles, as Anna (Nabucco), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and Clorinda (La Cenerentola).

Elisabeth Freyhoff speaks five languages fluently, has many years of ballet training and has been awarded scholarships from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Deutscher Bühnenverein. From 2017 to 2024, she studied at the HMTM with KS Prof. Christiane Iven and at the Theaterakademie August Everding with Prof. Lars Woldt in Munich. Already during her studies, she made her debut as Serpetta (La finta giardiniera) at the Theater an der Wien and as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Kammeroper München, as well as performing with renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Bremer Philharmoniker.