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The German mezzo-soprano, Carlotta Lipski, began her preparatory studies at the Konservatorium Winterthur/ ZricherHochschule der KnsteInstitut (2024-2015). She obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in Singing from the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (April 2015-February 2020; until 2017-2018 with Professor Hanno Müller-Brachmann; since 2018 with Christine Libor and Stephan Klemm);
her Bachelor of Music degree in Opera from the Institut für Musiktheater Karlsruhe (April 2016-June 2020); and
her Master of Music degree in Opera from the Institut für Musiktheater Karlsruhe (October 2020-February 2025; with Christine Libor and Stephan Klemm). During her studies, she performed in numerous university productions, most recently as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos (November 2023) and as Hansel in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. (November 2022). Together with Magdalena Wohlfahrt, she is a prize-winner of the 1st Josephine Lang Wettbewerbs in Tübingen (October 2023). She is a scholarship recipient of the Bühnenakademie von TONALI (May 2024), Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Oberrhein e.V., Richard Wagner Verbands Trier-Luxemburg (February 2020), and Förderpreises "Junge Kunst" der Stadt Konstanz. She received artistic impulses by attending master-classes with Juliane Banse, Anna Bonitatibus, Nadia Carboni, Daniel Fuerter, Mergreet Honig, Bernhard Lang, Alessandro de Marchi, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Schnebel , Camilla Tilling, Regina Werner and in the Lied class of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Holl.
Carlotta Lipski continues to live and work there as a freelance singer. She wants to tell stories with her voice and her personality, making art accessible and engaging for everyone. She made her debut as Miles in Ingo Kerkhof's production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw at the Theater Heidelberg (October 2021-April 2022) and returned there in spring 2023 as Smeraldina in The Love for Three Orange. (March 2023). At the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she sang in small solo roles and as a member of the Händel Festspielchores (since February 2016). She also participated in a children's music theatre piece with UFO - Junge Oper Urban, the Oper Düsseldorf.
In addition to opera, Carlotta Lipski creates her own projects, such as the feminist program “Are Women People,” which she presented at the Detect Classic Festival, and “Point Of No Return,” a music theater piece addressing climate change.
Carlotta Lipski has a strong interest in contemporary music and has already worked with prominent composers of our time, including Wolfgang Rihm, Bernhard Lang, Dieter Schnebel, and Helmut Lachenmann. Early in her studies, she won the Wettbewerb des Kulturfonds Baden e.V. for the interpretation of a Lied by Wolfgang Rihm. |
