soprano
Misaki Morino has established herself in works of the baroque and the classical era as well as in contemporary repertory. Despite her young career, she has already performed with many opera companies and orchestras in Asia and Europe.
In 2024, she sings Papagena with the Bach Collegium Japan at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Concert Hall, Alice Ford in Falstaff at the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan as well as Pamina with the Fujisawa Symphony Orchestra. On the concert stage, she makes her debut with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo under Jun Märkl and sings Beethoven’s Ninth with the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra under Kimbo Ishii.
In 2023, she made her debut with the Neuen Oper Wien as Eva-Lisa in Kapitän Nemos Bibliothek by Johannes Kalitzke as well as at the Grand Théatre de Genève as Sopran I in Electric Dreams by Matthew Shlomowitz, a role she also portrayed at the world premiere in 2017 under the auspices of the Austrian music festival Steirischer Herbst. In the seasons before, she triumphed as Queen and Alloro’s Daughter in Pascal Dusapin’s Perelà and in Du Yun’s Zolle, both at the Luzerner Theater.
In the 2020-21 season, she made her debut as Violetta at the Rohm Theater in Kyoto with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and in 2021-22, she repeated that role at the Theater Baden near Vienna. She also sang Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen in Germany.
Despite her young career, Ms. Morino has already performed with many companies and orchestras. In 2019, she sang Sandrina in La finta giardiniera under the auspices of the Summer Academy of the Wiener Philharmoniker with performances at the Wiener Kammeroper, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Schloss Thalbach und the Musikverein Graz as well as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at the Okayama Symphony Hall. Previous engagements include Micaela in Carmen and Pamina both at Suginami Public Hall, Silvia in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata with Teatro Barocco in Austria as well as the Bridesmaid in Der Freischütz with Oper Burg Gars am Kamp in Austria.
During her studies, she also performed Morgana in Handel’s Alcina (MuTh Konzertsaal Wien), Poppea in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Neue Studiobühne Wien), Contessa di Folleville in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, (Neue Studiobühne Wien), Lia-San in Abraham’s operetta Viktor und ihr Husar as well as Erste Dame und Erster Knabe in Die Zauberflöte and Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Schlosstheater Schönbrunn).
Her concert repertoire encompasses Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Brahms’ Liebeslieder-Walzer (Musikverein Wien), Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Wiener Musikverein), Mozart’s Coronation Mass (Tokyo Suntory Hall), Dvorak’s Mass in D-major (Okayama Symphony Hall, Peterskirche Wien) and many more. Most recently, she performed Exsultate Jubilate with the Okayama Philharmonic Orchestra and Fauré’s Requiem at L’église de la Madeleine in Paris.
Misaki Morino graduated with distinction from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and holds master’s degrees in Singing (Prof. Margit Klaushofer) and Art Song and Oratorio (Prof. KS Gabriele Fontana). She also sang master classes with KS. Edita Gruberova, KS. Angelika Kirchschlager, and Prof. Helmut Deutsch. In September 2020, she won the first prize at the International Brahms Competition in Austria, and in previous years the first prize at the Japan Music Competition (2018), third prize at the Alida Vane Award Singing Competition (2018), and second prize at the Heinrich Strecker Wettbewerb (2016).
