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The german mezzosoprano Heike Wessels studied at the Folkwang University of Arts Essen and the Conservatoire National de Strasbourg. She completed her studies by attending master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson and Dame Gwyneth Jones. In 2006 she won the 5. International Competition for young Wagner voices in Venice.
Following initial engagements at the Wuppertaler Bühnen and Staatstheater Braunschweig Heike Wessels joined in 2008 the ensemble of the Nationaltheater Mannheim singing signature roles of the dramatic mezzo fach such as Ulrica, Maddalena, Dalila, Eboli, Amneris, Brangäne, Fricka, Ortrud, Venus and Kundry . Guest contracts brought her to Oper Graz, Theater Dortmund, Volksoper Vienna, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf / Duisburg, Oper Frankfurt (Ortrud), Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Glyndebourne Festival and Opera Bastille Paris. In the Mannheim production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen 2013 (staged by Achim Freyer) she appeared to great acclaim as Sieglinde followed by debuts as Santuzza, Brünnhilde in Loriot's Der Ring an einer Abend and Agaue in Henze's The Bassarids. 
As a concert soloist Heike Wessels has performed at various events and venues including Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Rheingau-Musikfestival, Estonian Concert Hall Tallinn, Auditorio Principe Felipe Oviedo, Philharmonie Berlin, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome and Royal Festival Hall London. She sang under the baton of conductors like Friedemann Layer, Bertrand de Billy, Philippe Jordan, Marek Janowski, Axel Kober, Vladimir Jurowski, Dan Ettinger, Alexander Soddy, Shao Chia Lü, John Fiore, Sascha Goetzel and Gabriel Bebeselea.
Since 2018 Heike Wessels has been working as a freelancer and guested as Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) at Deutsche Oper am Rhein and at the Musical Autumn Cluj Napoca. Concert engagements brought her to the Philharmonie Cologne and Taipei National Concert Hall. In 2019 she returned to Nationaltheater Mannheim as Herodias (Salome) and Alto Soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and to Cluj Napoca as Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust). At Deutsche Oper Berlin she debuted as Kundry (Parsifal).

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The Knight of the Rose

Annina

The Ring in One Evening

Sieglinde

Lohengrin

Ortrud

The Tales of Hoffmann

La voix de la mère/La voix de la tombe

Tannhäuser

Venus

Hansel and Gretel

Gertrud

The Master-Singers of Nuremberg

Magdalena

Electra

Dritte Magd

The Magic Flute

Dritte Dame

The Rhinegold

Fricka

Rigoletto

Maddalena

Tristan and Isolde

Brangäne

The Twilight of the Gods

Waltraute

The Valkyrie

Siegrune

Eugene Onegin

Larina

A Masked Ball

Ulrica /  Madame Arvidson

The Marriage of Figaro

Marcellina

Samson and Delilah

Dalila

Don Carlo (Italian version)

La Principessa Eboli

Parsifal

Kundry

The Love for Three Oranges

Fata Morgana

Rustic Chivalry

Santuzza

Brünnhilde

The Bassarids

Agave

A Florentine Tragedy

Bianca

The Bat

Prinz Orlofsky

The Queen of Spades

Polina

Aida

Amneris

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Leokadja Begbick

Salome

Herodias

The Song of the Earth

Mezzosopran

The Damnation of Faust

Marguerite

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