Claudia Barainsky

Claudia Barainsky (born 30 September 1965) is a German operatic soprano. She has performed internationally, and won awards for her roles in contemporary operas such as Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and Aribert Reimann's Medea.

Career Born in Berlin, Barainsky studied at the Hochschule der Künste with Ingrid Figur. She took classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann. At the beginning of her career, she appeared in concerts at festivals such as Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden, the Schubertiade in Feldkirch, and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik. She made her stage debut in 1993 at the Stadttheater Bern as Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. A year later, she sang there the title role of Alban Berg's Lulu. She performed at the 2017 premiere of Uri Caine's song cycle on texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, conducted by Kristjan Järvi. Composers have written works for her; for example, Aribert Reimann's Tarde for soprano and orchestra in 2003, after a poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez.