Genia Kühmeier

Genia Kühmeier (born 1975) is an Austrian operatic soprano who has appeared internationally in opera and concert. She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 2003, and sang the role also at the Salzburg Festival and the Metropolitan Opera.

Career Born in Salzburg, Kühmeier grew up in Grödig. She attended elementary school, an economics grammar school and an educational institution for kindergarten teachers in Salzburg. She dropped out of that school in 1993 in order to study singing teaching at the Mozarteum until 1997, when she moved to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna to study solo singing. she sang Hanne in Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten. She performed the soprano solo in Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein.

In November 2007, Kühmeier made her U.S. debut as Pamina at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted by Kirill Petrenko.

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