Nadja Stefanoff

Nadja Stefanoff (born 22 July 1976) is a German operatic soprano based at the Staatstheater Mainz. She began her career as a mezzo-soprano. She studied voice at the Musikhochschule Dresden, graduating in 2010. and winner of the Orpheum Public Award for Mozart in Zürich in 2004. She moved to soprano roles in 2013.

She moved to the Staatstheater Mainz with the 2014/15 season. She performed there the title roles of Cherubini's Mèdèe, Bellini's Norma and Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Tosca, and as Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites. Stefanoff portrayed the title role, a Russian princess, of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt in a new production in 2022, directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Lorenzo Passerini, alongside Jonathan Tetelman as Loris Ipanov. Reviewer Jan Brachmann from the FAZ noted the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly.