Bio (English)

The soprano Milena Knauß studied singing at the HfMT Cologne with Prof Claudia Kunz-Eisenlohr, and received further inspiration from Johannes Martin Kränzle, Ulrike Sonntag, Paul Curran and Nicola Beller Carbone. She currently receives vocal coaching from Corinne Winters

During her studies, she was already regularly engaged at the Aachen Theatre, where she sang Concepción/L’Heure Espagnole, Anna Kennedy/Maria Stuarda, Flora Bervoix/La Traviata and Anne Frank/Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, among others. In 2019, she made her international debut at the invitation of the Goethe Centre with Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro Regional del Biobío, Chile. Her concert repertoire also includes Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, J. Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, Brahms‘ Ein deutsches Requiem and Fauré’s Requiem.

Her operatic roles have included Mimì/La Bohème, Contessa/Le nozze di Figaro, Erste Dame/Die Zauberflöte, Malwina/Der Vampyr, News Anchor/On Behalf of a Madman and Sharon Graham/Meisterklasse in Aachen and London and she made her debut in 2021 as Leonore/Fidelio at the Kammeroper Schloß Rheinsberg under the musical direction of Peter Gülke and staged by Georg Quander. As a singer and co-creator, she is involved in the creation of the opera cycle Fuck Marry Kill in Berlin, the second part of which, Warten auf Gertrud oder das Treffen der 100 Wunderkinder, was premiered in 2023 with funding from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.