Soloist

Andreja Zidaric

The award-winning Slovenian soprano Andreja Zidaric trained at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. There, she studied solo singing with Uta Schwabe and, prior to that, Musikalisches Unterhaltungstheater with Michèle Friedman.

Masterclasses with Thomas Hampson, Adrian Eröd and Christa Ludwig furthered her training. She received additional coaching from Patricia Nessy, a soloist at the Vienna Volksoper, amongst other venues. Since 2023, she has been coached by Monika Rebholz.

She has been a member of the ensemble at the Gärtnerplatztheater since the 2020/2021 season. Her repertoire there includes Adina (»L’elisir d’amore«), Adele (»Die Fledermaus«), the Queen of the Night and Pamina (»The Magic Flute«), Gretel (»Hänsel and Gretel«), Kunigunde (»Candide«), Olympia (»Les contes dʼHoffmann«), Sophie (»Werther«), Monica (»The Medium«), Morgana (»Alcina«), Ottilie (»The White Horse Inn«), Princess Fedora Palinska (»Die Zirkusprinzessin«), the title roles in Humperdinck’s »Sleeping Beauty« and Lehár’s »Friederike«, Louise Lautner and in the world premiere of Johanna Doderer’s »Schubert’s Reisen nach Atzenbrugg«. More recently, she has also appeared on stage as Freda (»Waldmeister«), Anna Reich (»The Merry Wives of Windsor«) and Angèle Didier (»Der Graf von Luxemburg«).

In 2014, Andreja Zidaric became the first Slovenian soprano to sing the role of Blonde in »The Abduction from the Seraglio for Children« at the Salzburg Festival as part of the Young Singers Project; she also made her debut as the First Noble Orphan in »Der Rosenkavalier« at the Großes Festspielhaus and appeared in many other concerts.

At the Dresden State Operetta, Andreja Zidaric made guest appearances as Gretel and the Fairy (in »Hänsel and Gretel«) and Ottilie (in »The White Horse Inn«). She sang at the Raimund Theatre in Vienna with the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in the world premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s musical »Schikaneder«, where she appeared as Maria Anna, amongst other roles. She also made her debut as Lubanara in »Der Stein der Weisen« at the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, and as Rosina in »Il barbiere di Siviglia« at the jOPERA Festival at Tabor Castle. In the 2019/2020 season, she returned to the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck as Violanta in the world premiere of »Die Schattenkaiserin« and sang the role of Countess Ceprano in »Rigoletto« at the Vienna Volksoper. At the Mörbisch Lake Festival in 2021, she was part of the original cast as Maria in »West Side Story«.

In 2022, she made her debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein with the Tonkünstler Orchestra under the baton of Lorenz Aichner, and in 2025 she opened the Vienna Coffeehouse Ball with the »Frühlingstimmenwalzer«. In 2024 and 2025, she also appeared as a soloist at the Munich Ball of the Stars with the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Andreja Zidaric is a finalist and prize-winner at various international competitions, such as the 2016 Emmerich Smola Encouragement Prize, the Heinrich Strecker Crossover Competition and the Nico Dostal Singing Competition. In March 2018, she sang in the semi-finals of the Lotte Lenya Competition in New York: