San Diego Opera debut. German mezzo soprano Anke Vondung made her singing debut at Operanschule Mannheim as Nancy in Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring. She has enjoyed a long relationship with Semperoper Dresden where she sang for two seasons as a house singer and is now a frequent guest artist singing such roles as Siébel in Faust, Wellgunde in Das Rheingold, Waltraute in Die Walkure, Tebaldo in Don Carlos, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Meg Page in Falstaff, as well as the title role of Carmen, among others. She is known for her portrayal of Octavian which she recently performed at the Munich Opera Festival, Opera de Bastille and Deutsche Staatsoper. Other notable performances include Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Bayerische Staatsoper. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Cherubino and returned to sing Annio in La clemenza di Tito. An active recitalist she has sung with many major orchestras around the world.