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Luzia Tietze

The young mezzo-soprano Luzia Tietze comes from southern Germany and developed a passion for music at an early age. Her path began at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, where she completed preliminary studies with Reginaldo Pinheiro. In 2015, she successfully completed her bachelor's degree at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and continued her musical education in the master's program with Kammersängerin Uta Priew.
Luzia Tietze won 1st prize in her age group at the Triomphe de l'Art competition in Brussels in 2019. She was also awarded a scholarship from the Lotte Lehmann Academy Perleberg. She participated in master classes of renowned artists
such as Marina Prudenskaya, Dunja Vejzovic, Anna Samuil, Janet Williams and Julia Varady. In Berlin she also attended the Lied classes of Wolfram Rieger and Thomas Quasthoff.
In addition to her opera performances, Luzia Tietze is also active in the concert field. She has appeared as a soloist in Freiburg Cathedral in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Spaur Mass" and in Berlin with Johann Sebastian Bach's solo cantata "Vergnügte
Ruh". Since the 2020/21 season, she has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Cologne Opera.

At the Cologne Opera she performed various roles such as Anton in Eröd's "Pünktchen und Anton" as well as 3rd Elfe in "Rusalka", Mercédès in "Carmen", Hippolito in Purcells' "The Tempest", 3rd Maid in Zemlinskys' "Der Zwerg", 3rd Lady in "Die Zauberflöte" as well as roles in "Der Ring des Nibelungen für Jung und Alt".