Dorothea Spilger

The mezzo-soprano Dorothea Spilger was born in Landshut, Germany. From 2008 until 2013 she studied both opera- and concert-singing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and at the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding with Fenna Kügel-Seifried. Since 2009 she has been a stipendiary of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. She has ample concert and theatre experience; to date, she has performed Orlofsky in Strauss´s Die Fledermaus, Ruggiero in Händel´s Alcina, Dorabella in Mozart`s Cosí fan tutte, Sesto in Mozart´s La clemenza di Tito, Tigrana in Puccini´s Edgar, and other roles. In the 2012/13 she was engaged at the Opéra National de Lyon, where she portrayed Lapak in Janáček´s The cunning little vixen and the Third Lady in Mozart´s Die Zauberflöte. In the 2014/15 season she has performed