Currently a member of the Wiener Staatsoper’s Opera Studio, Viennese soprano Miriam Kutrowatz will sing Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Confidante in Elektra and the Sandman in Hänsel & Gretel in the forthcoming Wiener Staatoper season. This season, Miriam will make her debut at Opernhaus Zürich as Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo. On the concert platform, she will sing Mater Gloriosa in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate as part of the Allegro Vivo Festival.

In the 2022/2023 season at the Wiener Staatsoper, she sang the role of Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Giannetta in L’Elisir d’Amore, Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos, Modistin in Der Rosenkavalier, Ida in Die Fledermaus, die Vertraute in Elektra, Konstanze in Entführung aus dem Serail, Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Fortuna in Il Ritorno di Ulisse, Pousette in Manon and Hanne in Haydn’s Seasons. She also appeared as Deianira in La Lotta d’Ercole at the Cologne Philharmonie and sang the soprano part in Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Vienna Academy Orchestra. At the Styriarte Festival, she performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Beethoven’s Kantate auf den Tod Kaiser Josephs.

From 2020-2022, Miriam Kutrowatz was a member of the Young Ensemble at the Theater an der Wien, where her roles included Idaspe in Il Bajazet, Marie in Der Waffenschmied, First Niece in Peter Grimes, L’Amour in Orphée et Eurydice, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Suzanne in Therese Raquin and Alinda Il Giasone.

As part of the Young Singers Project, she made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2021 in the title role of the children’s opera Vom Stern der nicht leuchten konnte. Other roles on the opera stage were Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Schönbrunn Palace Theatre and Morgana in Alcina at the “JOpera” festival.

Highlights of her concert and song work include The Creation (Haydn), Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate and Great Mass in C minor, Schubert’s Mirjams Siegesgesang and Der Hochzeitsbraten as well as Filia in Carissimi’s Jephte, Handel’s Messiah, and Mahler’s 4th Symphony.

She made her debut at both the Vienna Musikverein and the Vienna Konzerthaus in Mozart’s Requiem and appeared there in various programs under Phillipe Jordan, Andrés Orozco Estrada and Erwin Ordner.

Miriam Kutrowatz is a multiple prize-winner at the Innsbruck Festival’s International Cesti Singing Competition for Baroque Opera 2019 and a semi-finalist at the Glyndenbourne Opera Cup 2020.

She completed her bachelor’s degree with KS Edith Lienbacher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is continuing her master’s studies with Florian Boesch. She attended master classes with Marjana Mijanovic, Malcolm Martineau and Brigitte Fassbaender, among others and received lessons in contemporary dance from the Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich.