Biography

Raffaela Lintl studied in Weimar, Berlin, and Lübeck and attended master classes with Brian Zeger, Brigitte Fassbaender, Francisco Araiza, and Cheryl Studer. For many years, the soprano has received vocal guidance from voice teacher Gudrun Bär.
Lintl reached the final round of the NEUE STIMMEN singing competition in 2013, was a finalist in the Federal Singing Competition in 2014, and made her debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a result. She won the second prize and the Audience Prize at the Maritim Singing Competition in 2015 and the second prize in the Lied category at the 47th International Antonín Dvořák Singing Competition with pianist Thomas Cadenbach (Semperoper). She is also a recipient of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation's grant in 2014.

In the 2015/16 season, she was a member of the International Opera Studio at Theater Lübeck, where she performed roles such as Gretel in Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel" and La voix de la tombe in Offenbach's "Les Contes d’Hoffmann." In 2016, Raffaela Lintl made her debut at the Hamburg State Opera as the First Maid in Strauss's "Daphne" in a production directed by Christoph Loy and conducted by Michael Boder.

Further engagements led the soprano to the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Musikverein Wien, the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, the Dresden Music Festival, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, and the North German Philharmonic in Rostock. In 2013, she performed Richard Strauss's "Vier letzte Lieder" with the Symphony Orchestra of the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar under the direction of Christian Thielemann.

Since the 2016/17 season, Raffaela Lintl has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Magdeburg. In recent seasons, she has portrayed roles such as the title roles in "Rusalka" and Kálmán's "Gräfin Mariza," as well as Juliette  in Gounods Roméo et Juliette, Mimi in "La Bohème," Desdemona in "Otello," Sylva Varescu in Kálmán's "Die Csárdásfürstin," Formosa in Telemann's Handel adaptation "Richard Löwenherz," Sacerdotessa in "Aida," the First Lady in "Die Zauberflöte," Arminda in "La finta giardiniera," and Gerhilde in "Die Walküre."

Engagements in the 2021/22 season included performances at Theater Magdeburg as Marie in "Die Verkaufte Braut," the title role in the world premiere of Eugen Engels's opera "Grete Minde," Annie in Jean Gilbert's operetta "Die Kinokönigin" at Oper Leipzig, Marie in "Die Verkaufte Braut" at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater, and her debut as Senta in "Der Fliegende Holländer" at the Landesbühnen Sachsen.

In the 2022/23 season, the singer appeared with the Heilbronn Symphony, in an opera gala with the Southwest German Philharmonic in Friedrichshafen, in a New Year's concert with the Thuringian Symphony, and at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. She also performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Theater Magdeburg. She returned as Marie in "Die Verkaufte Braut" at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater.

The 2023/24 season includes an exciting role debut for Raffaela Lintl, as she will perform the role of Leonore in "Fidelio" in a new production in Magdeburg. She will also return to Magdeburg with the title role in "Grete Minde" and will be a guest as Senta in "Der Fliegende Holländer" at the Landesbühnen Sachsen during the festival season.

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