Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk

German soprano Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk is in her first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, during which she will make her Met debut as the Priestess in the company’s new production of Aida, cover First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and sing Chloë in The Queen of Spades. Additionally, during the 2024–25 season, she will sing First Lady at Semperoper Dresden and sing Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor at Opernhaus Zürich. While a member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich, she sang Gerhilde in Die Walküre, First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Maria Bellacanta in Peter Lund’s children’s opera Hexe Hillary geht in die Oper, a Lady in Waiting in Macbeth, and covered Tatiana in Eugene Onegin and Agathe in Der Freischütz. During the 2022 Salzburg Festival, she sang Blumenmädchen in Parsifal and Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor. She won third place and received the Wagner Award at the 2024 Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona and has received similar acclaim at other international competitions including first prize and Audience Choice Award at the 2023 International Belvedere Singing Competition, first prize at the 2021 Concorso Lirico Internazionale, first prize at the 2021 International Johannes Brahms Competition, and the grand prize at the 2019 International Giulio Perotti Singing Competition. She is an alumna of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich and holds a degree in voice from the Detmold University of Music.

Ann-Kathrin Niemczyk’s participation in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program is sponsored by the Kern family, in memory of Ralph W. Kern.