Biography

Raffaela Lintl studied in Weimar, Berlin and Lübeck and completed masterclasses with Brian Zeger, Brigitte Fassbaender, Francisco Araiza and Cheryl Studer. For many years, the soprano has been mentored by singing teacher Gudrun Bär.
Lintl reached the final round of the NEUE STIMMEN 2013 singing competition, was a finalist in the 2014 Federal Singing Competition, where she made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, won second prize and the audience prize at the 2015 Maritim Singing Competition, and won second prize in the lied category at the 47th International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition with pianist Thomas Cadenbach (Semperoper) and is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation 2014.

Raffaela Lintl was a member of the International Opera Studio at Theater Lübeck in 2015/16, where she appeared as Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and La voix de la tombe in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, among other roles.

Since the 2016/17 season, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Magdeburg, where she has sung numerous leading roles, including the title roles in Rusalka, Countess Mariza and in the world premiere of Eugen Engels' Grete Minde, as well as Juliette/Roméo et Juliette, Mimi/La Bohème, Desdemona/Otello, Sylva Varescu/Die Csárdásfürstin, Formosa/Richard Löwenherz and Marie/Die verkaufte Braut.

Guest engagements have taken her to the Leipzig Opera (Annie/Die Kinokönigin), the Schleswig-Holstein State Theatre (Marie/The Bartered Bride), the Landesbühnen Sachsen (debut as Senta in The Flying Dutchman) and renowned concert halls such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and festivals such as the Dresden Music Festival.

She has also performed with the Heilbronn Symphony Orchestra, the Southwest German Philharmonic, the North German Philharmonic and the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra, including Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

In recent seasons, Raffaela Lintl has impressed with several significant debuts and role changes: in 2023/24, she sang Leonore for the first time in a new production of Fidelio in Magdeburg, returned there with the title role of Grete Minde and was once again seen as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer at the Landesbühnen Sachsen. In the 2024/25 season, she made her debut at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona as the Supervisor in Elektra and was also scheduled as the cover for Chrysothemis. She then reprised the role of Leonore in Fidelio at the Magdeburg Theatre and shone as Antonia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Oldenburg Theatre.

The 25/26 season begins for Raffaela Lintl at the Aalto Theater Essen, where she will appear as Gabriele in a new production of Wiener Blut.

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