Vita

Mezzo-soprano Iris Marie Sojer commands a wide-ranging repertoire, spanning classic trouser roles to lyrical and dramatic characters. Her roles include Charlotte (Werther), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Sesto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), the Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), and Laura (Jolanthe).

She has appeared as a guest artist with Theater Basel, Theater Erfurt, the Aalto-Theater Essen, Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen, Bühnen Bern, and Stadttheater Klagenfurt. Earlier in her career, she was a member of the Opera Studio at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and later joined the ensemble of Oper Wuppertal, before embarking on a freelance career in 2023.

Iris Marie Sojer is a prizewinner of the Enno and Christa Springmann Foundation and a recipient of a scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association. She was also nominated as “Best Young Singer” in the WELT’s North Rhine-Westphalia critics’ poll in 2018/19.

She trained at the University of the Arts Berlin with Prof. Elisabeth Werres and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with KS Prof. Christiane Iven.

2025-08-11

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