German mezzo-soprano Eva Maria Summerer is acclaimed by the press for her “well-tempered mezzo” (Die Welt), her “warm, touching voice” and her dramatic expressiveness (Hamburger Abendblatt). Her remarkable opera career has seen her grace the stage of the renowned Semperoper Dresden, where she made her debut in the 2022/23 season as the Cook in Aribert Reimann’s The Ghost Sonata. In 2024, she returned to this illustrious venue to take on the role of Queen Eleonore in the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s highly anticipated The Jewess of Toledo. Summerer’s impressive repertoire includes performances as Mary in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, as Cornelia in Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the Cuvilliés Theatre in Munich, and at various theaters such as the Regensburg Theater and the Heidenheim Opera Festival. In the past season she captivated audiences as Gertrud in Hansel and Gretel and Annina in Der Rosenkavalier at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven. From 2018 to 2020, she was a member of the ensemble at the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater in Flensburg, where she showcased her versatility in roles such as Amando in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Erika in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, and Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto among others. As a celebrated concert soloist, Summerer has performed at prestigious venues including Lincoln Center in New York, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Hercules Hall in Munich, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne, and Frauenkirche in Dresden, among others. She has collaborated with esteemed conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Yura Yang, Ivor Bolton, Corinna Niemeyer, Jonathan Darlington, and Hossein Pishkar, as well as acclaimed directors like Robert Carsen or Tobias Kratzer. Eva Maria Summerer has been a prize-winner and finalist in numerous competitions, including the Mozart International Opera Competition in Granada, the Richard Strauss Competition, and the Wagner Voices Competition Karlsruhe and was a recipient of the Bayreuth Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Association Hamburg.