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Biography

Following her studies in Missouri and Kansas (USA), the Californian soprano, Betsy Horne, came to the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz as a scholar in 2001. Parallel to her postgraduate studies she performed at Staatstheater Mainz, at the Opera Cologne, and at the Festivals in Schwetzingen and Potsdam. From 2006, she was an ensemble member at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where she performed in over 20 roles on stage as a mezzo soprano, before she started her change of fach to soprano in 2009. In fall of 2009, Betsy Horne won the Dorothea-Glatt Förderpreis at the international singing competition Gesangswettbewerb für Wagner-Stimmen in Karlsruhe.

From 2010 to 2014, Betsy Horne was part of the ensemble at Coburg Landestheater, where she achieved great success in the roles of Desdemona, Katja Kabanova, Agathe, Tatjana, and Elsa. In 2012, she was awarded with the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis. Since her fulminant US debut as Katja Kabanova at the Spoleto Festival, USA she has been working as a freelancer.

In the fall of 2013, Betsy Horne debuted as Marschallin/Der Rosenkavalier at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, in September 2015 as Emma/Khovanshchina at Theater Basel, and in June of 2016 as Arabella at the Opera Leipzig.

In Germany and Europe, Betsy Horne is active as a concert and lied singer with the Hofer Sinfoniker and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, among others.

Highlights of recent seasons include her role debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, the roles of Freia, Sieglinde, Gutrune and Third Norn in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, where she also appeared as the Field Marshal in Der Rosenkavalier. At the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, she played Gerhilde (Valkyrie), Elisabeth in Tannhäuser at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the daughter in Hindemith's Cardillac and Princess Volchova in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko at the Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp. In addition, she played the roles of Desdemona in Otello at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes at the Oldenburg State Theatre, and also made her debut in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Salzburg State Theatre. At the 2024 Bayreuther Festspiele, she appeared as Klingsor's Zaubermädchen in Parsifal.

In the 2025/26 season, Betsy Horne will once again be seen as the daughter in Hindemith's Cardillac – this time at the Aalto Music Theatre in Essen – before singing a concert with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra featuring romantic orchestral works by Wagner and Richard Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder.

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Artist Website

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Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Beethoven	Symphony no. 9
Brahms	Ein deutsches Requiem
Dvorak	Stabat Mater
Hindemith	Hin und Zurück
Mendelssohn	Elias
Mozart	Requiem
Schumann	Das Paradies und die Peri
Strauss, R.	Vier letzte Lieder
Villa-Lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras
Wagner	Wesendonck-Lieder

Repertoire Opera

Britten	The Turn of the Screw	Gouvernante
Fall	Madame Pompadour	Madame Pompadour
Gluck	Iphigénie en Tauride	Iphigénie
Holst	Savitiri	Savitiri
Janáček	Katja Kabanova	Katja
Kálmán	Die Csárdásfürstin	Sylva Varescu
Monteverdi	L’incoronazione di Poppea	Poppea
Mozart	Die Zauberflöte	2. Dame
	Don Giovanni	Donna Elvira
Mussorgsky	Chowanschtschina	Emma
Poulenc	Dialogues des Carmélites	Madame Lidoine
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Nella
	La Bohème	Mimi
Raymond	Maske in Blau	Evelyne Valera
Smetana	The Bartered Bride	Marie
Strauss, J.	Zigeunerbaron	Saffi
Strauss, R.	Der Rosenkavalier	Die Marschallin
	Elektra	5. Magd
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Tatjana
Verdi	Otello	Desdemona
Wagner	Die Meistersinger v. Nürnberg	Eva
	Lohengrin	Elsa von Brabant
Weber	Der Freischütz	Agathe

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News

Off to the Wagner Olympics!

Also this year, Bayreuth audiences can look forward to Mika Kares who will once again sing the role of Hagen (Götterdämmerung) in the revival of the RING, this time under the musical direction of Simone Young. Among others, he will be joined by Alexandra Ionis, who is making her Bayreuth debut this summer and can be heard for the first time as 2nd Norn in Götterdämmerung and Siegrune in Die Walküre.
Performance dates: 29.7. (Die Walküre), 2.8. (Götterdämmerung), 21.8. (Die Walküre), 25.8. (Götterdämmerung).

In addition to the above mentioned roles, Alexandra Ionis will also be on stage as Mary in this year's children's opera Der Fliegende Holländer: 25/26/27/28/30/31 July & 01/02/03 August 2024

Another festival debutant is soprano Flurina Stucki, who can be seen and heard as Hirt in Tannhäuser (Tobias Kratzer/Nathalie Stutzmann) from July 26th and as Flower Maiden in Parsifal (Jay Scheib/Pablo Heras-Casado) from July 27th. Alongside Andreas Schager in the title role, Betsy Horne is again cast as Flower Maiden and 1st Squire.