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 the last seasons were her role debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Freia in Das Rheingold as well as Gutrune and 3rd Norn in Die Götterdämmerung at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She also appeared as Gerhilde in Die Walküre at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and as the Daughter in Hindemith's Cardillac and Princess Volkhova in Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko at Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp. She also performed the roles of Desdemona in Otello at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and Sieglinde in Die Walküre at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. In 2021/22 Betsy Horne made her debut in the title role of Ariadne on Naxos at the Salzburg Landestheater. In the past season 2022/23 she took on the roles of Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Feldmarschallin in Der Rosenkavalier at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, among others.

In the upcoming 2023/24 season, Betsy Horne will be seen as Elisabeth in Tannhäuser in Bari and will also take on the roles of Freia, Sieglinde, Gutrune and Dritte Norn in Ring des Nibelungen at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

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