Soloist

Antonia Schuchardt

The Mannheim-based soprano completed her Master of Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts in April 2024. As a prize-winner at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, she performed in a radio concert broadcast by SWR Kultur Stuttgart alongside her lieder duo partner, Leonie Bulenda. During the 2024/2025 season, she was awarded a part-season contract at the Theater Passau, where she played the role of the Naiad in »Ariadne auf Naxos« and Baroness Elsa Schrader in »The Sound of Music«. She also appeared as Flora (»The Turn of the Screw«) and in the world premiere of »Alpha&Omega« at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, and performed in various roles in the production »An allem ist Hütchen schuld!« at the Markgräfliches Opernhaus Bayreuth. In Bayreuth, she also sang in the Bayreuth Festival Chorus at the 2025 Bayreuth Festival in »Lohengrin«, »Parsifal« and »Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg«. Her concert engagements have taken her to Rome, Karlovy Vary, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, amongst other places.

At the MUT »Johann Strauss« Special Singing Competition 2024, organised by the Gärtnerplatztheater in collaboration with the Johann Strauss Festival Year 2025, Antonia Schuchardt secured guest engagements at the Gärtnerplatztheater (as Papagena in »Die Zauberflöte«) and at the Vienna Volksoper (as Barbarina in »Le nozze di Figaro«), and was awarded the Media Prize by »Orpheus« magazine. During the 2025/2026 season, she was a member of the Thuringia Opera Studio at the Erfurt Theatre, where she sang roles such as Zerlina (»Don Giovanni«), Isabella (»Märchen im Grand Hotel«), Oscar (»Un ballo in Maschera«) and Ensemble I (»In 80 Tagen um die Welt«). From the 2026/2027 season onwards, she is a permanent member of the ensemble in Erfurt.