soprano
Sieglinde Feldhofer was born in Styria (Austria) where she studied at the University for Music And Performing Arts Graz. She attended master classes with Gary Magby, Romualdo Savastano and Brigitte Fassbaender, and received several awards during her studies, including the Lions Panthera Encouragement Award. She was a finalist in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition (operetta division) in 2009, and in 2013 she was awarded the Austrian music theatre prize „Goldener Schikaneder“ for best Young Artist.
In the 2008-09 season, Sieglinde Feldhofer joined the ensemble of Oper Graz, where she has performed roles such as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Smeraldine (Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen), Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady), Maria Rainer (The Sound of Music), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Schlafittchen (Das Traumfresserchen), Komtesse Stasi (Die Csárdásfürstin), Christel (Der Vogelhändler), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Franzi Steingruber (Ein Walzertraum), Gigi (Gigi), Sora (Gasparone), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Ottilie (Im weißen Rössl), Julie Jordan (Carousel), Hortense (Der Opernball), Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe), Musetta (La Bohème), Maria (West Side Story), Barbarina and Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Ciboletta (Eine Nacht in Venedig), Jadja (Polnische Hochzeit), Gänsemagd (Königskinder), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and many more.
In addition, Sieglinde Feldhofer has made regular guest appearances at the Seefestspiele Mörbisch – Mascha in Der Zarewitsch (2010), Adele in Die Fledermaus (2012), Christel in Der Vogelhändler (2017), at the Volksoper Wien – Franziska Cagliari in Wiener Blut (2011), Hortense (Helene) in Der Opernball (2017, 2018), at the Salzburger Landestheater – Adele (2012), the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen – also as Adele (2014), at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl – leading role of Margit in Lehár’s Wo die Lerche singt (2013), Kondja Gül in Leo Fall’s Die Rose von Stambul as well as Miss Phoebe in Lehár’s Die Juxheirat (both 2016), Princess Laya in Die Blume von Hawaii (2018), and at the Theater Baden – Dolly Girot in Lehár’s rarity Frasquita (2016), Sonja in Der Zarewitsch (2017), Marzelline in Fidelio (2018), Blanka von Lossin in Lehár’s Die blaue Mazur (2019), title role in Lehár’s Eva (2021). In 2017-18, she also made her successful debut at the Opera House of National Grand Theatre in Beijing as Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe.
In the 2021-22 season, Sieglinde Feldhofer’s performances include Marenka in The Bartered Bride and the title role in Dostal’s operetta Clivia, both at the Oper Graz, Baronin Freimann in Der Wildschütz at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and the Countess in Strauss’ Wiener Blut at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl. In 2023, she will sing her first Angèle in Lehár’s Der Graf von Luxemburg at the Theater Baden.
