The soprano Mojca Erdmann is one of the most versatile artists on the international music scene. She is renowned for her wide-ranging repertoire, which spans from the Baroque to contemporary music. Mojca Erdmann performs at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls, as well as at the most prestigious festivals worldwide.

In the 2026/27 season, she will appear as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and as Elsa in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck.

In the 2025/26 season, she performed Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Scottish National Orchestra under Thomas Søndergård in Edinburgh and Glasgow, as well as in recitals with Malcolm Martineau at the Pierre Boulez Saal. In Sofia, she sang works by Beethoven and Richard Strauss under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach.

Mojca Erdmann opened the 2024/25 season with a concert alongside the Boulez Ensemble under the direction of Zubin Mehta at the Pierre Boulez Saal, where she performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. Further highlights included Mahler’s Fourth Symphony at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona; Mahler’s Rückert Lieder with the string quartet of the Staatskapelle Berlin, again at the Pierre Boulez Saal; excerpts from Wagner’s Lohengrin as Elsa with Adam Fischer at the Koncerthuset Copenhagen; Bach’s St John Passion with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and Lothar Koenigs in Palermo; her debut at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck in Schoenberg’s Von heute auf morgen; and the world premiere of Alex Nante’s Symphony Anahata with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg under Kent Nagano at the Elbphilharmonie.

In the 2023/24 season, Mojca Erdmann made her role and house debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen as Vitellia in Jetske Mijnssen’s new production of La clemenza di Tito. She also took on the roles of Klara and Therese in a new production of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati’s opera Amerika at Zurich Opera. In demand as a concert and recital singer, Mojca Erdmann opened the season with Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, the Symphony of a Thousand, under Robert Treviño at the Kursaal in San Sebastián. At Queen Elizabeth Hall in Antwerp, she sang Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony under Kevin John Edusei, and at Müpa Budapest she was a soloist in Haydn’s The Creation under Adam Fischer. Further highlights of the season included appearances at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozart Festival in Augsburg, the Whitsun Festival in Baden-Baden with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, as well as recitals with Malcolm Martineau.

In the preceding season, Erdmann made her debut as Doña Clara in Alexander Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg at the Ópera de Tenerife. As Artist-in-Residence at the CSO Ada Ankara Concert Hall, she presented three different programmes featuring works by Mendelssohn, Reimann and Schoenberg. Mojca Erdmann also sang Berg’s Seven Early Songs with the Copenhagen Philharmonic under Christoph Eschenbach at the Conservatory Concert Hall in Copenhagen. She had previously performed Berg’s Seven Early Songs in 2019 with Paavo Järvi and the Berlin Philharmonic.

She made her debut in Wolfgang Rihm’s Aria/Ariadne “Szenarie” under the musical direction of Gianandrea Noseda at Zurich Opera. In her hometown of Hamburg, she performed Jörg Widmann’s Arche at the Elbphilharmonie and interpreted Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater as well as Bach’s Ich habe genug at the Cologne Philharmonie. Together with pianist Elena Bashkirova, Mojca Erdmann gave several chamber music recitals in Geneva, Andermatt and at the Cité de la musique in Paris. At the Narodni Dom in Maribor, she presented a programme of works by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms with Malcolm Martineau.

Highlights of previous seasons include performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and the Woodbird (Siegfried) under the direction of Fabio Luisi. Zerlina was also the role of her debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 2013. In 2019 she sang the role of Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Dallas Opera.
Mojca Erdmann’s debut in the title role of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu in a new production by Andrea Breth, under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin State Opera, attracted considerable attention. Lulu became one of her signature roles, which she also performed in a new production by William Kentridge at Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and in Christoph Marthaler’s award-winning production at the Hamburg State Opera. In 2014, the soprano appeared as Marzelline in a new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, opening the season at La Scala in Milan, an event traditionally broadcast live worldwide. At the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Mojca Erdmann appeared as the Woodbird in Siegfried with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle. Since her Salzburg Festival debut in 2006 in the title role of Mozart’s Zaide under Ivor Bolton, Mojca Erdmann has returned to Salzburg on numerous occasions, including as Zelmira in Haydn’s Armida and as Sophie in a new production of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. In 2013, she also took part in several world premieres with the Scharoun Ensemble as part of the festival. In 2012 she premiered Rodion Schchedrin’s Cleopatra and the Snake a the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

The soprano is internationally sought after for her interpretations of contemporary music theatre works. She made her debut at the Berlin State Opera in the world premiere of the production Takemitsu – My Way of Life under Kent Nagano. In 2009, she took on the title role in Wolfgang Rihm’s monodrama Proserpina, which was written especially for her. Rihm also entrusted her with the first soprano role in his opera Dionysos, which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 and received its German premiere at the Berlin State Opera in 2012. She performed the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Requiem-Strophen with the Symphonieorchester of the Bayerischen Rundfunks under the baton of Mariss Jansons in Munich’s Herkulessaal and Lucerne´s KKL. Mojca Erdmann’s interpretations of Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Stilles Meer at the Hamburg State Opera and Widmann’s monumental opera Babylon at the Berlin State Opera were highly acclaimed. In 2020, Mojca Erdmann took on one of the two principal roles in Luca Francesconi’s two-person opera Quartett, based on Heiner Müller’s play of the same name. The German-language premiere took place at the Berlin State Opera under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Also noteworthy is her participation in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s South Pole at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 2016, conducted by Kirill Petrenko and directed by Hans Neuenfels. She also worked with Petrenko in Der Rosenkavalier at the Bavarian State Opera. Their collaboration had begun early in her career, when Petrenko was General Music Director at the Komische Oper Berlin, whose ensemble she was a member of from 1997 to 2005 while simultaneously pursuing her studies.

The soprano can be heard on numerous studio recordings, including the highly acclaimed recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Bamberg Symphony under Jonathan Nott and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, released by Sony. In 2011, her solo album Mozart’s Garden, featuring arias by Mozart and his contemporaries, was released by Deutsche Grammophon. RCA released a recording of Wolf´s Italian  Songbook which featured Mojca Erdmann, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber.  In 2020, the label Neos released the album Die Schneekönigin, conducted by David Philip Hefti, in which the soprano sang the leading role.
She can be heard as Zerlina and Despina respectively on Deutsche Grammophon’s recently released complete recordings of Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte, both conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Together with Daniel Barenboim at the piano and Zubin Mehta on the podium, the Pierre Boulez Saal recorded Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and George Crumb’s Ancient Voices in 2021. In 2022, Pentatone released a new album entitled Hans Sommer Orchesterlieder, on which Mojca Erdmann was part of the soloist quartet.

Mojca Erdmann’s artistic relationship with Nikolaus Harnoncourt included a recording of Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as acclaimed performances of Haydn’s Orlando Paladino with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Born in Hamburg, Mojca Erdmann received her first violin lessons at the age of six and sang in the children’s choir of the Hamburg State Opera. After completing her secondary education, she studied violin with Mihaela Martin and voice with Hans Sotin at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2002, she won both First Prize and the Special Prize for Contemporary Music at the German Federal Singing Competition (Bundeswettbewerb Gesang). In 2005, she was awarded the NDR Music Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer Festival.

Praised by critics and loved by audiences for her beauty of tone and impeccable artistry, soprano Mojca Erdmann is star in the international music scene. Of her return to the Metropolitan Opera in 2012, the New York Timeswrote “Mojca Erdmann brought a sweet, beguiling voice and a demure sincerity to Susanna”. Known for her versatility in repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music, the BBC Music Magazine praised her as an “interpreter of major gifts”.