The german Soprano Cornelia Goetz is a national and international well known artist. In 2009 she was guest in Athens , at the Opera Bastille Paris and on Beaune, where she sang the role of Fiordiligi in COSI FAN TUTTE (Mozart) and the soprano-part in Mozarts “Requiem”. Beginneng from the season 2009/10 she is member at the Semperoper Dresden and will perform the roles of Konstanze / THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO, Gretel / HAENSEL & GRETEL, Cleopatra / JULIUS CAESAR IN EGYPT, Sophie / DER ROSENKAVALIER and Queen Of The Night/ THE MAGIC FLUTE.

Cornelia Goetz gave her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House New York under the baton of James Levine as Queen Of The Night in Mozarts “THE MAGIC FLUTE” round the turn of the year of 2006/7.

During the season 2006/7 and 2007/8 Cornelia Goetz performed at the Staatsoper Hamburg (THE MAGIC FLUTE / Queen of the night), at the Komische Oper Berlin (LES CONTES DU HOFFMANN / Olympia and THE MAGIC FLUTE / Queen of the night), at the Semperoper Dresden (THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO / Konstanze), at the Staatstheater Stuttgart (THE MAGIC FLUTE / Queen of the Night) and at the Festival Aix-en Provence (THE MAGIC FLUTE / Queen of the Night). Further she sung the role of Cunigonde in an amazing production of Leonard Bernsteins Musical CANDIDE at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich on July 14 th . 2007. (As concertante performance with new unifying texts - written and read by LORIOT)

The artist was guest at many international Opera Houses as for example Staatsoper Hamburg , Semperoper Dresden, Opera House Zürich, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Lyric Opera Chicago. Further Engagements brought her to Tokyo and Yokohama , to London , Edinbourgh, Marseille, Rom, Parma , Wien , Berlin , Stuttgart , and Leipzig .

Cornelia Goetz studied at the university of Karlsruhe with Prof. Christiane Hampe, in Vienna with Ruthilde Boesch, at the famous Reinhardt Seminar, with Astrid Varnay, at the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera Munich and with Martino Stamos Vogiatsis.

Directors with international reputation as for example Harry Kupfer, Peter Konwitschny, Olivier Tambosi, Sebastian Baumgarten, August Everding, Hans Neuenfels und Andreas Homoki value the high presence on stage and mutability of Cornelia Goetz.

During her international career Cornelia Goetz was performing under the baton of many well-known conductors – for example Giuseppe Sinopoli, James Lewine, Andrew Davis, Pierre Auguin, Philip Jordan, Yakov Kreizberg, Michael und Vladimir Jurowski, Sebastian Weigle, Julien Salemkour, Alfred Eschwé, und Bertrand de Billy, and Marc Piollet.

The rich repertory of Cornelia Goetz includes the great Oratorios of the „old masters“ as well as the colorature repertory of Mozart (f.e. THE MAGIC FLUTE / Queen of the Night; DON GIOVANNI / Donna Anna; THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO / Konstanze, Blodne), the Italian parts (f.e. Verdi RIGOLETTO/Gilda; Puccini LA BOHEME / Musetta) and composers of the 20/21 century (f.e. Richard Strauss ARIADNE AUF NAXOS / Zerbinetta; B.A. Zimmermann, THE SOLDIERS, Marie).

In future Cornelia Goetz would like to sing the following roles:

Donizetti: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR / Lucia
A. Berg LULU / Lulu

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