In the organizer's words:

How does one actually become an opera singer and why? You will get the answer to this question and much more at this singing evening... Framed by songs and arias, the singer Stefanie Schaefer (lecturer in singing) tells us in a charming and lively way about the curiosities, surprises, disappointments and wishes that life as a professional singer has in store.

Piano: Kristina Ruge

Stefanie Schaefer, mezzo-soprano
Born in Frankfurt am Main, the mezzo-soprano has lived in Gilching since 2022. She has been performing on stage for 25 years and has sung 60 different roles during this time.
Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. From Luigi Rossi's ARISTEO and Monteverdi's NERONE to all the great roles in her field such as CHERUBINO, OKTAVIAN, ROSINA, CARMEN and CHARLOTTE - to name but a few.
After many years as a permanent ensemble member at opera houses in Wuppertal, Darmstadt, Erfurt and Karlsruhe, Schaefer has been working freelance since 2016. Guest engagements have taken her to the operas in Frankfurt, Zurich, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Nuremberg, Brno, Bern, Essen, Berlin and Mainz, among others.
Schaefer is in demand as a lieder, concert and oratorio singer. Here, too, her repertoire is wide-ranging and includes Bach's works, Handel's "Messiah", Mozart, Dvorak and Verdi Requiems, Rossini's "Petite Messe Sollenelle", Mendelssohn's "Elijah" and Mahler's works under conductors such as Pablo Carignani, Sylvain Cambreling, Toshiuki Kamioka, Eliahu Inbal, Christoph Spering and Stefan Szoltes.
She has performed in venues such as the Wuppertal Stadthalle, the Cologne, Berlin and Essen philharmonic halls, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg and the Rheingoldhalle Mainz.