The soprano Anna-Lena Elbert was born in Munich in 1994 and received her first singing lessons at the municipal singing and music school in Munich with Tanja d’Althann. In her youth she was a member of the Bavarian State Youth Choir and the Bavarian Singakademie. In 2013 she achieved a first national prize »Jugend Musiziert« in the category vocal duo and special prizes from the Walter and Charlotte Hamel Foundation as well as the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

After graduating from high school in 2014, the Munich native began her Bachelor’s studies at the Munich University of Music and Theatre with Prof. Frieder Lang and completed them in 2018. During her studies, the young soprano was already actively involved in concerts both inside and outside the university, especially in the fields of early and contemporary music. There she received significant impulses from Prof. Christine Schornsheim, Prof. Kristin von der Goltz and Prof. Konstantia Gourzi.

As an opera singer, Anna-Lena Elbert has performed the roles of Lucia (»The Rape of Lucretia«), Pamina, Queen of the Night (»The Magic Flute«), Adina (»L’elisir d’amore«), Adele (»Die Fledermaus«) and Rosina (»Il barbiere di Sevilla«) at the Hochschule. In the 2020/2021 season, the young soprano had her debut at the Bavarian State Opera in the leading role of a children’s opera by Gordon Kampe (premiere).

The soprano’s busy concert schedule ranges from Renaissance to contemporary works and includes all the great oratorios by Bach and Handel, Bach cantatas, masses by Mozart and Schubert, oratorios by Haydn and Mendelssohn as well as works by Orff, Honegger and Ligeti. As a concert singer, Anna-Lena Elbert was a MozartLabor scholarship holder at the Mozart Festival in Würzburg in 2019 and performed at the Swiss Baroque Festival (Bünder Barock), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and the Rheingau Festival.

Anna-Lena Elbert has a particular passion for chamber music and Lied interpretation and studied in the classes of Prof. Julian Prégardien, Prof. Donald Sulzen, Prof. Fritz Schwinghammer and Rudi Spring in the Master Lied interpretation, which she completed in early 2021. Together with her Lied accompanist Kota Sakaguchi, she won prizes at the Richard Strauss Competition and Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in 2019 and had her debut in 2021 with concerts at the International Hugo Wolf Academy and the Schubertíade in Spain.