Mezzo-soprano Marie Henriette Reinhold was born in Leipzig. After completing her bachelor's degree in musicology in Weimar, she studied classical singing/opera singing with Prof. Elvira Dreßen at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig. There she completed her Meisterschüler's degree with honors in February 2020.
Since then, Marie Henriette Reinhold has been successfully performing as a soloist not only in Germany's concert halls and main churches, but also in other European countries. She has performed with the Gaechinger Cantorey, the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Munich Bach Choir, Concerto Köln, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, the Windsbacher Knabenchor, the Baroque orchestra “La Scintilla”, the Zürcher Singakademie, and the Stuttgart Chamber Choir.
She has worked with conductors such as Hans-Christoph Rademann, Thomaskantor Andreas Reize, Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann, Dima Slobodeniouk, Florian Helgath, Frieder Bernius, Philipp Herreweghe, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov, Paavo Järvi, Pietari Inkinen, and Christian Thielemann.
She appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 2019 and 2021 as Klingsor's magic maiden in “Parsifal” under Semyon Bychkov and Christian Thielemann. Since 2021, she has also taken on the role of Grimgerde in “Valkyrie”, first in the semi-staged production with action artist Hermann Nitsch, and currently in the production by Valentin Schwarz under Cornelius Meister and Pietari Inkinen.
In the new “Parsifal” production by Jay Scheib in 2023, she sang one of Klingsor's magic maidens and the voice from the heights, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
She was also engaged in Bayreuth in the summer of 2024: in addition to “Parsifal” and “Valkyrie”, she performed as Flosshilde in “Rheingold” and “Götterdämmerung” under the direction of Simone Young. She will also sing all five roles in the summer of 2025.
Masterclasses with Jonathan Alder, Alexander Schmalcz, Götz Payer, Thilo Dahlmann and Peter Schreier gave her decisive impulses in the field of Lied interpretation.
She was the first junior prizewinner of the 2012 National Singing Competition in Berlin, a prizewinner of the 2014 Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, and a 2017 Richard Wagner Scholarship Holder.
Marie Henriette Reinhold is featured on numerous CDs from various labels, including Max Reger's choral cantatas and his Requiem op. 144b, Haydn's Stabat mater with the Kammerchor Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius, the world premiere recordings of Gustav Schreck's “Christus, der Auferstandene” and Friedrich Schneider's “Das Weltgericht” as well as the “Johannespassion” by J. S. Bach under the direction of Peter Schreier. She has recorded the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat by J. S. Bach with the Gaechinger Cantorey under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann and is also significantly involved in the current project “Vision.Bach”, in the context of which all cantatas from the year 1723 will be released by Haenssler.