Vanessa Waldhart

Vanessa Waldhart

Official Homepage

Vanessa Waldhart

  • In Vanessa Waldhart as Poppea, she has a formidable rival who can certainly stand up to the Empress, but also uses her youth as a weapon. Waldhart's radiant soprano voice captivates.

       

    Oom.de, Thomas Molke, 08. June 25

    POPPEA | AGRIPPINA | HÄNDELFESTSPIELE HALLE

  • "My musical highlight, however, was definitely Vanessa Waldhart as Poppea: She delivered extremely virtuoso coloraturas (fast sequences of notes). She embellished them very creatively and also extremely ambitiously: They were musical champagne pearls – absolutely great!"

       

    MDR KULTUR Radio, Henrike Leißner, 07. June 25

    POPPEA | AGRIPPINA| HÄNDELFESTSPIELE HALLE
  • As expected, Vanessa Walhart [sic] sweeps the stage in this role with her vocal acrobatics, which are not forced at all but come across as impressively natural!    

    Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Joachim Lange, 26 January 2025

    KÖNIGIN DER NACHT | DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE | HALLE

  • The discovery of the opening night, however, is Vanessa Waldhart as the Queen of the Night, who, with her fine lyrical interpretation does not play the role of an avenging angel, made people sit up and take notice with her nuanced and absolutely precise coloratura and spherical intonation. A great performance!

         

    operablog.org, Sebastian Barnstorf, 26 January 2025

    KÖNIGIN DER NACHT | DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE | HALLE

  • „Vanessa Waldhart’s coloraturas were so relaxed and so easy, the only thing I would have missed was for her to turn to the audience and say «nothing easier, I can do it all» - well, that was really great. The pianissimo that she offered in the Queen of the Night’s first aria was so unearthly beautiful, there is no other way to express it...”

    MDR KULTUR Radio, Henrike Leißner, 26. January 2025

    KÖNIGIN DER NACHT | DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE | HALLE
  • ...at the top are the two feminine protagonists: […] The Tyrolean Vanessa Waldhart does not play Adele, she is her ideal incarnation. And also self-confident…   

    Concerti, Roland H. Dippel, 13 Nov 23

    ADELE | DIE FLEDERMAUS | HALLE
  • Vanessa Waldhart as the artificially created Olympia, […] sing brilliantly. Especially the killer coloratura trills that are demanded from the perfect machine-woman Olympia and are sung with wonderful soul, keep you in suspense.      

    MZ, Andreas Montag, 25 Sept 23

    OLYMPIA | LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN | HALLE
  • Vanessa Waldhart is very expressive and technically perfect as the evil Vitellia. All arias in her performance are real gems, and she also has the best diction of all the singers. The soloist also dispels the cliché that colouratura sopranos have a weak middle and chest voice. At the end of the aria "Come potesti, oh Dio!" she sings with a wonderful vibrato in the low chest register.  

    Klassik-begeistert.at / Klassik-begeistert.de, Jolanta Łada-Zielke, 11.05.24

    VITELLIA | LA CLEMENZA DI TITO | GLUCKFESTSPIELE
  • Vanessa Waldhart shows perfect colouratura, attack and melancholy blossoms for Vitellia, who is torn apart by love, humiliation and revenge. Without Hofstetter's noblesse brakes, she would have even more prima donna dynamite for Gluck's aria explosions. Thus she remains here a bravura soprano on a too short conductor's leash.  

    Neue Musikzeitung, Roland H. Dippel, 10.05.2024

    VITELLIA | LA CLEMENZA DI TITO | GLUCKFESTSPIELE

  • ...Her pearly-crystal clear coloraturas, her cooing eroticism in voice and play, her lyrical emphasis and her ludically easy high notes on point are breathtakingly well sung ...

    klassik-begeistert.de, 04.10.21

    TOCHTER ZION | BROCKES PASSION | HALLE
  • ...His wife Tytania [...] is sung by coloratura soprano Vanessa Waldhart with ludically easy and virtuosic heights...

    klassik-begeistert.de, 20.09.21

    TYTANIA | A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM | HALLE
  • ...Cleopatra performed by Vanessa Waldhart with great potential in acting and singing

    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 03 Jun 2019

    CLEOPATRA I JULIUS CÄSAR IN ÄGYPTEN I HALLE
  • Unrivalled is Vanessa Waldhart: Lolita in the Middle East also shows vocally hybrid territorial claims.

    Neue Musikzeitung, 02 Jun 2019

    CLEOPATRA I JULIUS CÄSAR IN ÄGYPTEN I HALLE
  • Vanessa Waldhart not only enchants visually as Cleopatra. Also vocally she shines with a soprano voice as clear as a bell, which works out the complexity of this figure in all nuances of the individual arias.

    omm.de, 02 Jun 2019

    CLEOPATRA I JULIUS CÄSAR IN ÄGYPTEN I HALLE
  • The Queen of the Night, Vanessa Waldhart, exposed in acting and brilliant in her coloraturas...

    Sächsische Zeitung, 4 Feb 2019

    Queen of the Night | The Magic Flute | Chemnitz
  • In Mozart’s “Bastien and Bastienne” especially Vanessa Waldhart stands out with her warm, lightly and flexibly led soprano which is perfect for this lyric part.

    Deutschlandfunk.de, 27 Nov 2018

    Bastienne | Bastien & Bastienne | Halle
  • Vanessa Waldhart is an eye catcher as Bastienne. She sings the part with a small, fine voice and really convinces in terms of character-painting...

    MDR Kultur, 25 Nov 2018

    Bastienne | Bastien & Bastienne | Halle
  • ...in the coloraturas of the Queen of the Night (fascinating accurate: Vanessa Lisa Waldhart)...

    kulturundwein.com, 22 Mar 2018

    Queen of the Night | The Magic Flute | Vienna
  • ...Vanessa Lisa Waldhart convinced as Blonde from the beginning, she ostensively masters every technical problem, hands down: a pleasure...

    Bündner Tagblatt, 07 Aug 2017

    Blonde | The Abduction from the Seraglio | Chur

Dates

Jan 31,
Feb 14,
Mar 1, 6 & 20,
Apr 17
J. Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
Oper Halle
more »

Feb 20,
Mar 22,
Apr 25,
Jun 10 & 13
G. F. Handel: Agrippina
Händelfestspiele Halle, Oper Halle
more »

May 7, 9 & 10
Gluck: Paride ed Elena
Mozartfest Augsburg | Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth | Stadttheater Fürth
more »

Jun 5, 7, 12 & 14
G. F. Handel: Rinaldo
Händelfestspiele Halle, Oper Halle
more »

Jun 28
Orff: Carmina Burana
Congress Innsbruck, Saal Tirol
»

Highlights

The Austrian coloratura soprano is particularly praised by the press for her range, coloratura and acting skills:

"highly expressive coloratura" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), "even the most difficult passages with apparent ease"/"intense, excellent right up to the high notes" (Opernmagazin), "with beguiling coloratura" (concerti), "confident and stylistically assured"/"comically excellent and vocally touching in the best sense of the word" (Opernwelt), "absolutely precise, savoured coloratura and ethereal intonation"/"The discovery of the premiere evening" (operablog.org), "a luminous voice, adorned with elegant coloratura and an intensity of acting" (Kunst & Künste), "vocal acrobatics that are not forced in the slightest, but come across as impressively natural" (MZ), "perfect coloratura, attack and melancholic blossoms" (Neue Musikzeitung), "Very expressive and technically perfect"/"with playfully light and virtuoso high notes" (klassikbegeistert), "crystal-clear high notes" (Saarbrücker Zeitung), "with sparkling fluency"/"great potential in terms of acting and vocals" (FAZ), "fearlessly achieves the most difficult coloraturas" (OperaNow), "her dreamlike soprano voice in all its nuances, silvery, sun-bright, precise" (WPR)...

Nomination „Newcomer“

Opernwelt 2022

„Dame Joan Sutherland“-Award and 1st Award (2nd section)

21st Int. Ferruccio Tagliavini-Competition

EVA KLEINITZ-AWARD

9th Concorso Lirico Internazionale Portofino

Finalist

9th Int. Renata Tebaldi-Competition San Marino

Videos

Photos

Concert

»
Stage

»
Portrait

»