Elsa Dreisig

Soprano Elsa Dreisig was a fast-rising star on operatic stages before her 2018 debut album, Miroir(s), appeared to great fanfare. She is a protégée of Daniel Barenboim attracted attention from Plácido Domingo and other big names in the operatic world. Major contacts came her way in the 2015-2016 season when she joined Barenboim's Opera Studio at the Berlin Staatsoper. Charismatic and with a distinctive light soprano, Dreisig released the recital album Miroir(s) in 2018. She rejoined Barenboim that year for a tour with his cross-cultural West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The year 2019 saw Dreisig make her first appearance in contemporary opera in the world premiere of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee. In 2021, she was heard on Marc Minkowski's recording of Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto, K. 87. A Dreisig album of Mozart arias was slated for release in 2022.