Sarah Wegener

The versatile Germay-based soprano Sarah Wegener performs opera, concert music, chamber music, art song, and contemporary music. In the latter field, she has had close creative relationships with several major German composers. Wegener began working closely with composer Georg Friedrich Haas, premiering his song cycle ...wie stille brannte das Licht on WDR Cologne radio in 2009 and singing the lead role of Nadja in his opera Bluthaus in 2011. In 2012, she made her recording debut on an album of music by Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817). Wegener was heard on a recording of Hans Werner Henze's opera Das Floß der Medusa in 2023.