Melanie Diener

Melanie Diener (born in 1967) is a German operatic and concert soprano who appeared at major European opera houses and festivals. She appeared as Elsa in Wagner's "Lohengrin" at the Bayreuth Festival, among others
Career.
Diener was born in Schenefeld near Hamburg. She grew up in Stuttgart, where she first studied music pedagogy and piano. She then studied voice at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Sylvia Geszty, and with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim
Diener won prizes at international competitions such as the and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition. She made her debut in concert in Mendelssohn's oratorio "Paulus" in 1995. In 1996, she made her stage debut as Ilia in Mozart's "Idomeneo" at the Garsington Opera. She appeared in the same role a year later at the Bavarian State Opera. Diener performed the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's "Così fan tutte" at the Royal Opera House. In 1997 at the Salzburg Festival, she appeared as the First Lady in Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte". She performed the title role of Korngold's "Die Kathrin" for the BBC that year.
Diener appeared as Donna Elvira in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the "Aix-en-Provence Festival" in 1998. The same year, she appeared as Agathe in Weber's "Der Freischütz" at the Vienna State Opera. She made her debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Elsa in "Lohengrin" in 1999 and performed the role the following two years. In Vienna, she also appeared as Elettra in Mozart's "Idomeneo" in 2000, as Contessa Almaviva in his "Le nozze di Figaro" in 2002, as Ellen Orford in Britten's "Peter Grimes" in 2005, and as Elvira, Elsa, and Chrysothemis in "Elektra" by Richard Strauss in 2007. In 2013, she appeared as Isolde in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, a role which she also performed at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.
In concert, Diener also sang the soprano parts in Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Mendelssohn's "Elias", "Ein deutsches Requiem" by Brahms, Verdi's Requiem, and Britten's "War Requiem", among others. In 1998, she appeared in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's cantata "La vita nuova" in Munich on the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.
She also sang lieder, including Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder, and "Vier letzte Lieder" by Richard Strauss at the Salzburg Festival.