Regina Richter

Mezzo-soprano Regina Richter completed her training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich under Daphne Evangelatos. Early performances brought her roles such as Ruggiero in Handel's “Alcina,” Dorabella in “Così fan tutte,” the Flower Maiden in “Parsifal” under James Levine, and Sesto in Handel's “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” under René Jacobs.

She has been a member of the Cologne Opera ensemble since the 02/03 season. Cologne opera audiences know her as Octavian in “Der Rosenkavalier,” Fragoletto in Offenbach's “Die Banditen,” in the title role of “La Cenerentola,” as Rosina in “Il barbiere di Siviglia,” Prince Orlofsky in “Die Fledermaus,” and as Hansel in “Hänsel and Gretel.” As part of the Cologne Opera's guest performance in China, she appeared at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in 2010 as Wellgunde in “Das Rheingold” and “Götterdämmerung” and as Waltraute in “Die Walküre.”

In previous seasons, she has been heard at the Cologne Opera in roles including Jenny in Kurt Weill's “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny,” Adalgisa in “Norma,” the Composer in “Ariadne auf Naxos,” Cherubino in “Le nozze di Figaro,” Sesto in “La clemenza di Tito,” Ruggiero in “Alcina,” Giovanna Seymour in “Anna Bolena,” Donna Elvira in “Don Giovanni,” Siebel in Gounod's “Faust,” Lucienne in “Die tote Stadt,” Behemoth in “Meister und Margarita,” Second Fairy in “Rusalka,” and Second Lady in “Die Zauberflöte.”

Regina Richter has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Al Ayre Espagnol Orchestra, and the WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Since the 22/23 season, she has appeared in Cologne as Nireno in “Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” Second Lady in “Die Zauberflöte,” Alisa in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Gianetta in “L'elisir d'amore,” Margaret Hennessy in “The Strangers,” Marthe Schwerdtlein in “Faust,” Frau Gast in the children's opera “Pünktchen und Anton,” Second Maid in “Elektra,” and Mercédès in “Carmen.”

In the 25/26 season, she will be heard as Second Lady in “Die Zauberflöte,” Wellgunde in “Das Rheingold,” and Waltraute in “Die Walküre,” among other roles.