Biography
Alina König Rannenberg is currently studying for her Master's degree in opera at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden with Prof. Hendrikje Wangemann. In November 2022 she made her house and role debut at the Musikalische Komödie of the Oper Leipzig as Daisy Gray in Leo Fall's "The Dollar Princess". Other guest engagements have brought her to the Staatstheater Meiningen and the Staatsoperette Dresden. Alina König Rannenberg has already been generously supported by the Theo Adam Scholarship in the Deutschlandstipendium program and is a scholarship recipient of the Giovanni Omodeo Foundation.
The young soprano studied for her bachelor's degree in voice at the Hochschule für Musik in her hometown Nuremberg with Prof. Elisabeth Kovacs. There she gained her first experiences on the opera stage as Prima Sorella Cercatrice in Puccini's "Suor Angelica" as well as Cupido in Offenbach's "Orpheus in der Unterwelt", with which she also made guest appearances at the Parktheater in the Kurhaus Göggingen. In addition, she was part of the ensemble in Enno Poppe's "IQ", in the Bluebox of the Nuremberg State Theater. She received further musical impulses through master classes with Klesie Kelly, Christoph Prégardien and Juliane Banse.
Alina König Rannenberg has also performed the roles of Zerlina (Mozart's "Don Giovanni) Ännchen (Weber's "Der Freischütz"), Mrs. Fiorentino (Kurt Weill's "Street Scene") as well as the solo soprano in Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater, W.A. Mozart's "Exsultate, Jubilate", J.S. Bach's St. John Passion and many other Bach cantatas including BWV51 ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen").
