Elsa Dreisig

Elsa Dreisig (born 1991) She sang in the children's choirs of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and the Opéra National de Lyon. She studied singing with Valérie Guillorit at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Regina Werner-Dietrich. In 2016, she won first prize at the Operalia singing competition in Guadalajara, created by Plácido Domingo. and was voted "Newcomer of the Year" in the critics' choice of the Opernwelt magazine. She was also awarded the Victoires de la Musique Classique award in the category "vocal discovery".

Concert singer In 2017, Dreisig undertook a European tour with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle, singing in Haydn's Die Schöpfung, including her first time at the Salzburg Festival. She appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Christus am Ölberg, as well as with the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. She has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Fabio Luisi, Franz Welser-Möst, Massimo Zanetti and David Zinman. 2015: Queen Sonja International Music Competition – second prize.

Recordings 2018: Miroir(s) : opera arias, Warner Music Group 2020: Morgen with Jonathan Ware, piano, Parlophone Records