Within a very short time young German contralto Maria Radner could establish herself as one of the most promising contraltos. Still a student she debuted at Palau de les Arts Valencia in the deep and challenging contralto-part of Saul in Vincente Martin y Solers oratorio Philistaei a Jonatha disperse and made her recital debut at this very theatre in June 2008. Afterwards she debuted at Bregenzer Festspiele in the title-role of a concert-performance of Händel’s Salomo. These debuts were followed by a Parsifal new production with Lorin Maazel conducting in Valencia and her debut at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma, where she sang Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bucher under the baton of Antonio Pappano as well as her debut at Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as 3^rd Dame in Mozart’s Magic Flute with Tomas Netopil conducting. Meanwhile graduated with honors Maria Radner made her debut at Teatro Real Madrid in Schumann’s Faust Scenes. Sir Simon Rattle engaged her for the roles of 1^st Norn and Flosshilde in Twilight of the Gods for the Festival d’Aix en Provence 2009 and the Salzburger Osterfestspiele 2010 as well.

The season 2009/10 brings Maria Radner to the Canadian Opera Company Toronto in the new production of Strawinsky’s Le Rossignol. She makes her debut at Concertgebouw Amsterdam in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Philipp Herreweghe conducting and she returns to Bavarian State Opera in Magic Flute. After the Twighlight of the Gods at Salzburger Osterfestspiele 2010 Maria Radner sings Erda in concert performances of Rheingold at Oper Leipzig and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. In summer 2010 she appears for the first time at Salzburg Festival in a new production of Elektra.

Maria Radner still studies with Marga Schiml in Karlsruhe. She was scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association Bayreuth.

2009/10